Public official uses taxpayer funds to pay illegal aliens for to clean her house. Criminal charges ensue.

A six-count federal indictment against Hidalgo County Commissioner Sylvia Handy is only the "tip of the iceberg," law enforcement officials said.

FBI agents arrested the embattled elected official and her husband at their Weslaco home Thursday morning, alleging they paid two women - both of them illegal immigrants - to work as servants using taxpayer funds.

Prosecutors accuse the pair of women of providing child care and housekeeping services to Handy's family while collecting county paychecks under assumed identities over a period of five years.

But authorities close to the case said their initial probe into the 52-year-old commissioner's hiring practices has since spawned separate investigations into allegations of witness tampering, bid-rigging and kickbacks involving county contracts.

Further state and federal indictments are expected against the commissioner and other alleged accomplices, they said.

Many further details follow in a rather complete article on the situation in Hidalgo County. But oddly enough, one thing is missing from the piece. No where is Handy’s political party mentioneed, despite the fact that she is a prominent member of a major political party. And what would that party affiliation be? A little check on the matter shows that it starts “D” and ends with “emocrat”. I wonder – why the omission?

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