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It's "Katy" because the address of the home is Katy. That part of unincorporated Harris County has addresses from Cypress, Houston, and Katy all within a couple blocks of each other. It's 10 to 20 miles from the nice parts of Katy though. It's disengenuous when people say Katy has gone to crap because of that part of town that has always been bad. You're always within 10 to 20 miles of a crappy part of town in Houston no matter where you live.

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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The FBI served a search warrant related to allegations involving a city of Houston Health Department employee and marketing vendor on Wednesday.

The FBI confirmed it was at 8000 North Stadium Drive "conducting court-authorized law enforcement activity." The city of Houston said the search warrant was served at the Health Department's administrative offices.

Multiple sources in city hall, the health department and within the legal system have confirmed the names of the Health Department employee and the marketing vendor involved.

Since neither have been charged, 13 Investigates is withholding their names for now.

The investigation is focused on a COVID-era marketing effort conducted by the city's health department, according to multiple city sources.

The vendor did marketing work for the city's COVID-19 outreach team. City records show the vendor worked on a campaign the city rolled out as, "Better Together," which was a way to encourage masking, handwashing and testing in the early days of the pandemic.

City payment records show the company was paid more than $900,000 since the pandemic began.

The money likely came from federal COVID response funds, which could make any impropriety a federal crime.

City documents show the payments to the marketing vendor were for project management and branding. One invoice we reviewed suggests the core objective was "to provide key stakeholders and partners for the Houston Health Department with safe, on-demand and trusted resources to mitigate crisis."

We reviewed more than a dozen invoices and all of them were signed by the city employee named on the search warrant. The name appeared most often under a stamp marked "approved."

The employee is a media specialist, not a mayoral appointee. According to a LinkedIn page, that employee has a long connection to the city.

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htownag10 said:

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The lame mayor is blaming the rash of shootings on the new carry policy. I'm sure if the LTC was still mandatory all the rereleased felons would have taken a proper class

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rilloaggie said:

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htownag10 said:

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The lame mayor is blaming the rash of shootings on the new carry policy. I'm sure if the LTC was still mandatory all the rereleased felons would have taken a proper class

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https://texags.com/forums/38/topics/3205581/replies/59665217

Called it! Never-mind that felons can't legally own guns.

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Because of his close relationship with the victim, the case is set to be tried as capital murder.

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Ag83 said:

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Because of his close relationship with the victim, the case is set to be tried as capital murder.

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Since when is having a "close relationship" a basis for a captial murder charge? I see nothing in the penal code about that.

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