Post by pavel on Jan 18, 2016 11:47:54 GMT -6
As his second year in office begins, the state’s top lawyer may be using more of his time and treasure on his personal legal affairs than on the state’s.
Nobody’s going to force you to feel sorry for Ken Paxton, but the Republican attorney general’s political persecutions have turned into criminal prosecutions. The investigations, inquiries and folklore that started during the 2014 primary that vaulted him into office didn’t stop when he was elected.
Last year, he was indicted on securities fraud charges stemming from his work as a private attorney. His lawyers have labored unsuccessfully to get those indictments dropped, but a criminal trial could be in the attorney general’s future.
Now, some of the legal officials working on that criminal matter have initiated fresh questions about a land deal which involved Paxton, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis and eight others and that ended with a real estate deal with the Collin Central Appraisal District.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/01/18/analysis-ken-paxtons-legal-complications-multiply/
Nobody’s going to force you to feel sorry for Ken Paxton, but the Republican attorney general’s political persecutions have turned into criminal prosecutions. The investigations, inquiries and folklore that started during the 2014 primary that vaulted him into office didn’t stop when he was elected.
Last year, he was indicted on securities fraud charges stemming from his work as a private attorney. His lawyers have labored unsuccessfully to get those indictments dropped, but a criminal trial could be in the attorney general’s future.
Now, some of the legal officials working on that criminal matter have initiated fresh questions about a land deal which involved Paxton, Collin County District Attorney Greg Willis and eight others and that ended with a real estate deal with the Collin Central Appraisal District.
Read more: www.texastribune.org/2016/01/18/analysis-ken-paxtons-legal-complications-multiply/
