Jack Stick, a former state official at the center of a contracting scandal at the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, on Friday received a sentence of six days in jail and 90 days without a driver’s license for a DWI case that predated his troubles at the state agency. Source: Ex-state official Jack Stick sentenced to 6 days in jail for DWI | www.statesman.com … [Read more...]
No DWI sentencing date yet for ex-state official Jack Stick
Former Texas health commission lawyer Jack Stick, found guilty Monday of driving while intoxicated, will be sentenced within the next two weeks, but no final date has been set, Travis County court officials said Tuesday. The former state representative and prosecutor faces between three and 100 days in Travis County Jail or up to two years of probation and a $2,000 fine for … [Read more...]
UPDATED: Former HHSC Chief Counsel Jack Stick Hits Bottom with Long Avoided DWI Conviction
UPDATE: Stick has been sentenced to six days in jail. The man who famously carried a toy stuffed wolf into informal resolution meetings with Medicaid providers and quipped that he could "find a program violation on Jesus Christ" if Jesus were a Medicaid provider met a further comeuppance Monday. A Travis County jury found he was guilty of driving while impaired back in … [Read more...]
Jack Stick Convicted of Drunken Driving | The Texas Tribune
A Travis County jury on Monday convicted former state representative and Texas Health and Human Services general counsel Jack Stick of drunken driving, the latest chapter in year of problems for the former prosecutor and state lawmaker. Stick, 49, was arrested Sept. 11, 2012, a little more than a year after he joined the health commission. The trial began on Friday in Travis … [Read more...]
Trial Begins for Former State Official Accused of DWI – Texas Tribune
More than three years after he was originally arrested, Jack Stick, a former state representative and previous inspector general for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission, went on trial Friday for a drunk-driving charge he has fiercely contested in the court system. Stick was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated on September 11, 2012. Since then, he and … [Read more...]
Controversial former state official’s drunk driving trial begins
AUSTIN -- Nearly three years after police pulled over a then-powerful Texas state official on suspicion of drunk driving, prosecutors are finally getting a chance to prove their case. Source: Controversial former state official's drunk driving trial begins … [Read more...]
DWI trial underway for Jack Stick, implicated in 21ct scandal
Before Jack Stick resigned as chief counsel for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission amid one of the biggest political scandals in 2014, the former state representative was fighting a charge in Travis County court for driving while intoxicated. Source: DWI trial underway for Jack Stick, implicated in 21ct scandal … [Read more...]
Former HHSC Chief Counsel Jack Stick DWI Trouble Soon to be Three Years Old
For the record, the DWI trial that was scheduled on July 30 for former Health and Human Services Commission chief counsel and former deputy inspector general for enforcement Jack Stick has again been delayed until September 17. Stick's original arrest and charges date from September 11, 2012, meaning that this case will continue to plod through the Travis County Criminal … [Read more...]
Jack Stick DWI Trial Delayed Again Until July
Today, former Texas Health and Human Services chief counsel and former OIG deputy inspector general for enforcement Jack Stick was scheduled to be tried before a jury on his September 2012 charge for DWI. Once again, the trial has been delayed and the date reset for July 30th. The case is now going on almost three years. Stick was arrested by an Austin police officer … [Read more...]
Prominent state official’s drunk driving trial delayed until April – Houston Chronicle
AUSTIN -- The drunken-driving trial of a former Texas health commission lawyer has been rescheduled for April, once again delaying a high-stakes and hotly anticipated test for a man who recently became infamous as part of a state contracting scandal. Jack Stick's trial, which had been scheduled for Thursday, was reset for April 30 by the judge, prosecutor David Escamilla … [Read more...]