Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says Legislature will review Deloitte’s contracts after public loan project scandal

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, seen in 2023, said in a letter Tuesday that Deloitte's blunder "set back the Texas Energy Fund's ability to help deliver more megawatts of dispatchable power in a timely fashion.” (Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune)

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Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said Tuesday that the Legislature will review all of the state’s existing contracts with the firm Deloitte after it selected a company whose CEO was previously convicted of an “embezzlement scheme” as a project finalist for a low-interest, taxpayer-funded loan program to build new power plants in Texas.