AUSTIN, Texas (AP) – A spokesman for public corruption investigators in Texas says they’ve opened a case into the state’s agriculture chief, who reportedly used taxpayer dollars to travel to Oklahoma to obtain a so-called anti-inflammatory injection called a “Jesus shot.”
Texas Department of Public Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said Wednesday that state investigators are looking into allegations that Republican Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller abused his office.
The left-leaning group Progress Texas requested an investigation last month after the Houston Chronicle reported that Miller used taxpayer money to travel to Oklahoma, where he apparently received the “Jesus shot” – which supposedly reduces chronic pain.
Miller spokesman Todd Smith says Progress Texas is trying to harass its political opponents.
Another high-ranking Texas official, Attorney General Ken Paxton, is currently under felony indictment for securities fraud.
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