Nearly 4,000 pages of evidence paint the clearest picture yet of the allegations against the attorney general.
provides the clearest picture yet of the long and winding tale of alleged corruption that forms the basis of the House’s case to remove Paxton from office, including his allegedly corrupt friendship with and bumbling efforts to protect Paul, which led to four of his top deputies blowing the whistle to federal authorities, their subsequent filing of a state whistleblower civil lawsuit, an ongoing FBI investigation, and, most recently, the Texas House’ overwhelming vote to impeach Paxton in May...
The saga stretches back at least to the summer of 2020, when Paxton first began carrying out a series of unusual maneuvers, basically wielding the full power of the Office of the Attorney General at Paul’s behest—including intervention in ongoing litigation with an investor in one of Paul’s bankrupt properties; an official state investigation into Paul’s wide-ranging grievances involving federal and state law enforcement’s raid of his home and offices in 2019 as well as their investigation into...
The same documents provide a new level of gravitas to the House’s impeachment charges against Paxton, whose legal team has filed motions attempting to dismiss impeachment allegations as an illegal and political witch hunt that was done in secret and produced no real evidence. The Senate trial on the impeachment articles is set to begin September 5.
Documents show that the day that Ken Paxton’s top deputies blew the whistle to the FBI, the attorney general took a late-night Uber ride to Nate Paul’s West Austin manse.Paxton’s affair–which has long been a somewhat open secret in Austin—was a sordid scandal for the purportedly staunch Christian conservative who has often used his post to lead moralizing, right-wing crusades and file oddball civil lawsuits at Texans’ expense.
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