A House budget writer said he would recommend restoring the Travis County District Attorney’s Office public integrity unit’s state funding as it was before former Gov. Rick Perry vetoed the money.

Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, the chairman of the House appropriations subcommittee in charge of the judiciary’s budget, said during a Feb. 18 public hearing that he does not like the way that insurance fraud and motor fuels tax fraud cases are being prosecuted in the wake of Perry’s veto.

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