Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton faces an upcoming impeachment trial, criminal securities fraud indictments, as well as a state bar disciplinary and...
The next month, investigators hired by a House ethics committee began probing the funding request and the whistleblowers’ accusations.
, so the lawsuit against the Office of the Attorney General is still pending. Any developments are unlikely until after the impeachment trial.Under state law, the agency — not Paxton himself — is the defendant in the whistleblower case. This means the state, and therefore taxpayers, typically pays for any settlements in such cases.
The FBI is investigating the whistleblower corruption allegations against Paxton, though there are scant details into exactly what they’re probing or whether authorities plan to bring charges.and noted that the outcome will affect the attorney general’s long-delayed state securities fraud cases. If Paxton is arrested by the FBI, they explained, they would be more likely to settle the fraud cases so as to focus on the potentially more serious federal charges.
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