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On August 15, 2014, Texas Governor Rick Perry was indicted by a Travis County grand jury, but has since been cleared on all charges. [1] [2] [3] The first charge of the indictment was abuse of official capacity, a first-degree felony, for threatening to veto $7.5 million in funding for the Public Integrity Unit, a state public corruption prosecutors department.
On August 15, 2014, a grand jury indicted Perry on two counts. [19] [20] Perry vowed to fight the prosecution, and on February 22, 2016, more than a year after he left office, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals granted Perry's pretrial habeas petition and dismissed all criminal charges against him. [21]
Perry's second presidential campaign failed to garner substantial polling support, fundraising or media attention, leading him to withdraw from the race after only three months. [6] Perry was initially a vocal opponent of Donald Trump's 2016 campaign for President, however, he later endorsed Trump after he secured the Republican nomination. [7]
By PAUL J. WEBER AND WILL WEISSERT AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry has formally pleaded not guilty to criminal charges of leveraging his power to try to oust a Democratic ...
Perry, who campaigned for the Republican presidential nomination this year and in 2012, faced a first-degree felony charge. Texas court dismisses indictment against former governor Rick Perry Skip ...
By PAUL J. WEBER AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Republican Texas Gov. Rick Perry vowed Saturday to fight a criminal indictment in a defiant response that showed an old slice of swagger that he's kept ...
Business and economy Alibaba Pictures Group Ltd., a unit of the giant Chinese e-commerce firm, finds accounting irregularities in its books. (Reuters) Law and crime Texas Governor Rick Perry is indicted on felony charges for abuse of power. He is accused of coercing a District Attorney who had been convicted of drunk driving to resign by threatening to veto funding for state public corruption ...
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