"You've got some people that are really fouling things up"  Texas state representative Glen... Fire department goes shoppi

"You've got some people that are really fouling things up"  Texas state representative Glen Hager told us. "And they're really taking the taxpayers for a big ride."

For example, 11 News Investigates tracked down a spending spree at the New Caney Fire Department that wasn't all for official fire business.

"I did something wrong", said Debbie Yancy now the focus a criminal investigation along with her husband, the former president of the fire district board.

And as we first reported in May, the Harris County District Attorney is investigating the president of Emergency Services District One for a potential conflict of interest in having his construction side business do a half-million dollars worth of work for the district.

Representative Hager calls the abuse, a disturbing and growing trend: "You don't just have one individual case, you don't have just two individual cases. You've got several in one area. Imagine, potentially what's going on throughout the state of Texas"

Charlie Stone runs the Office of Rural Community Affairs, which used to have a training program in place for districts. The only problem he says: "It was cut out by the legislature" because of funding cuts. "It was very unfortunate."

And it's why Hager is working to resurrect the program in the last legislative session. He says, "It's your money, it's my money, it's my next door neighbor's money, it's all the people who are paying the tax bill at the end of the day"

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