AUSTIN, Texas (AP) _ Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller won’t face criminal charges over allegations he used taxpayer funds to obtain a “Jesus shot” in Oklahoma.
The Department of Public Safety investigated the Republican for possible abuse of power. But in a memo released Tuesday, prosecutors in Austin said they’d determined “criminal intent would be difficult to prove.”
The Houston Chronicle reported in March that Miller used taxpayer money to travel to Oklahoma last year to apparently receive the “Jesus shot.” That’s an anti-inflammatory injection meant to reduce chronic pain.
Miller reimbursed the state more than $1,000, but declined to say whether he got the injection.
The memo says Miller returned an additional nearly $500 since, calls the cost of the trips “relatively small” and says Texas had now been refunded “all the money.”