City of Houston

Houston Controller opens formal probe after records show Mayor Whitmire's $127,000-a-year 'senior adviser for financial integrity' badged into City Hall only 13 times in nearly 600 workdays, then says the mayor's administration is withholding the requested records

Houston Mayor John Whitmire faces Texas Ethics Commission, city Inspector General, and City Controller complaints over a $60,000 taxpayer-funded mayoral podcast alleged to violate the state's political-advertising law