A jury awarded Houston Housing Authority’s former general counsel $1.87 million late Thursday in a whistleblower suit against the agency.

The $1.87 million covers back pay, front pay and past and future mental anguish for Karen Miniex, who served as the agency’s general counsel for four years, her representative, Berg & Androphy partner Zenobia Harris Bivens, told Corporate Counsel. In her suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, Miniex claimed she was fired from the agency in December 2016 for raising concerns of employee voucher fraud.

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