By Danny Fenster
ticklethewire.com
Federal agents and prosecutors know too well the frustration of investigating something for a long long time, only to come up empty handed.
Well, that’s just what happened in Lubbock, Tex.
A nearly four-year-long FBI investigation of the city and its former healthcare administrator has resulted in no charges, according to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
“After the careful evaluation of many factors, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas is no longer pursuing its investigation of the city of Lubbock,” said a statement released by Kathy Colvin, public information officer with the U.S. Attorney’s Office, according to the paper.
Dozens of agents raided the Lubbock City Hall in May of 2008, seizing computers, electronic storage and communications devices and boxes of documents with a warrant alleging conspiracy, false statements, wire fraud and health care fraud. Now, all of that property is being returned to the city.
“The FBI called and told the outside council to come pick up all the records that were seized four years ago,” Lubbock Mayor Tom Martin said.
