Just days after we published the contents of county documents that appear to tie the Tarrant County Housing Finance Corporation (TCHFC) to unethical payments to a Dallas law firm, an anonymous letter full of new accusations landed in our office.

“Thank you for your story and exposing a portion of Norton Rose Fulbright and Paul Brayden’s apparent scheme to use political influence to enrich themselves with public dollars,” the whistleblower wrote.

In our September article, we connected two county housing group projects worth nearly $100 million to the Dallas law firm Norton Rose Fulbright. The Dallas Morning News recently found that Paul Brayden, a Norton Rose Fulbright partner who until recently sat on the board of the Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs (TDHCA), may have used his position as a board member for that department to award housing contracts to groups that then paid lucrative legal fees to Brayden’s firm (“ To the House,” Sep 14).

Our reporting found the Tarrant County housing group, which works to provide local affordable housing options, paid Norton Rose Fulbright around $500,000 in consulting fees after Brayden approved public funding for two Tarrant County projects. The author of the anonymous letter lists an additional eight projects that may be tied to consulting fees paid to Norton Rose Fulbright.

From an open records request, we received an invoice that indicates that the county housing group paid $236,837 to Norton Rose Fulbright and ...

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