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Post by Logan on Jun 5, 2016 21:59:15 GMT -6
AG Paxton Tries to Silence Whistleblower, Stumbles Into Yet Another Scandal Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s maiden voyage in statewide office has been a rocky one, punctuated by felony securities fraud charges and a lawsuit filed against him by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. And on Friday, Texas’ scandal-prone top lawyer waded into yet another controversy, this time trying to silence a whistleblower who claims the AG’s office under Paxton’s predecessor, now-Gov. Greg Abbott, quietly dropped a multi million dollar fraud case against Trump University for political reasons. This week, John Owens, deputy director of the AG’s consumer protection division under Abbott, told multiple media outlets that top brass at the AG’s office inexplicably killed the investigation into Trump’s defunct real estate training program, an investigation that concluded that Trump U had engaged in “false, misleading and deceptive practices” in Texas. Rather than filing a lawsuit or pressuring Trump U to pay back the millions of dollars Texans spent on what the investigation called “dubious real estate investment strategies,” the AG’s office under Abbott dropped the case and Trump U quietly left the state. Years later, Donald Trump would donate some $35,000 to Abbott’s successful gubernatorial campaign, according to the AP. Read more: www.sacurrent.com/Blogs/archives/2016/06/04/ag-paxton-tries-to-silence-whistleblower-stumbles-into-yet-another-scandal
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