RICHMOND, Texas (Covering Katy News) – A Fort Bend Independent investigation into Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter McCoy's explosive redistricting accusations reveals that the Democrat commissioner may have pulled an elaborate con job on Fort Bend County residents—one that his own "smoking gun evidence" ultimately exposes.

TV Journalism Training Helped McCoy Fool Media Outlets

McCoy, who studied television journalism in Boston, leveraged his media training to create a professional news-style video making salacious accusations against Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyers. The polished presentation helped his claims gain traction, with numerous media outlets subsequently reporting McCoy's accusations as fact without conducting the independent verification work done by the Fort Bend Independent publisher and editor Seshadri Kumar.

McCoy's False Claims About Attorney Bass's Redistricting Advice

In recent days, McCoy claimed he had uncovered proof that Commissioner Andy Meyers "knowingly misled the public" about why redistricting attorney Robert "Bob" Bass wasn't retained for current redistricting efforts. McCoy accused Meyers of lying when he told the public that Bass had retired and his firm no longer handled redistricting work, claiming instead that Bass had actually refused to participate in what McCoy characterized as Meyers' redistricting "scheme."

Meyers maintains his account was accurate

"I did not speak with Bob Bass, I spoke to Jim Allison, the Senior Partner about...

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