We have an Attorney General in Texas named Greg Abbott.  Greg was in a bad accident and became a millionaire by suing for it.  Now he’s for tort reform so nobody else can do that.  He made my butt itch.  (Sorry, Momma, there’s no way to clean that up.)

Well now there’s another little windfall for his friends:

When Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott announced earlier this year the settlement of a big Medicaid fraud case against two drug companies that netted the state a record $56.5 million, he didn’t mention that nearly one-third of the money $17.3 million didn’t go to taxpayers. Instead it went to an Austin law firm that handled the cases for his office.

Nor did he reveal that the same firm will receive millions more for its work on the case against a third pharmaceutical company, now in final negotiations.

In all, Wright & Greenhill — using a legal team headed by a former assistant attorney general — stands to earn about $30 million in contingency fees from an unusual contract signed in 2007 to provide outside legal services to Abbott’s office.

Abbott says the Lege didn’t give him enough money to hire lawyers to prosecute these cases so they farmed it out.

You can hired a helluva lot of government lawyers for $17 million. Which just goes to prove once again that Republicans will step over a five dollar bill to pick up a dime.

Me?  Well, I’m just wondering how much of that money is going to end up in Greg Abbott’s campaign account.  I’m betting a bunch.