Mere months after taking office in 2015, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton surrendered to authorities on three felony counts related to securities fraud. But after getting his mugshot taken and posting a $35,000 bond, Paxton spent the next nine or so years making sure that the law was a bludgeon to be used against other people. People who are not rich, white, politically empowered Republican men. On Tuesday, weeks before that 2015 case was finally set to go to trial, the special prosecutors...
By JUAN A. LOZANO Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — When Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s returns to court over felony securities fraud charges he’s been facing for nearly a decade, it will put him the closest he’s ever been to standing trial in the case. But it’s unclear if the trial set to begin April
(The Center Square) – After video of a Black female student assaulting a white female student after school and off property went viral, Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey blamed the school district’s “race-based policies” for the event. Several media outlets reported Kaylee Gain, 16, suffered a skull fracture, brain bleeding and other injuries on March 8. The video showed the Black female beating Gain’s head into concrete in an unincorporated area of St. Louis...
The criminal case against Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on securities fraud charges has ended after nine years — a span during which the Republican was reelected twice, impeached and acquitted, and emerged more politically powerful than ever. The deal with special prosecutors abruptly ends the long-running saga, which at one time threatened Paxton's rising political fortunes and could have sent him to prison, but later came to underline his resilience within the GOP. The trial had been...
Texas AG Paxton could see criminal charges dropped in deal with prosecutors (First column, 4th story, link)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday agreed to pay nearly $300,000 in restitution under a deal to end criminal securities fraud charges that have shadowed the Republican for nearly a decade. The announcement by special prosecutors in a Houston courtroom came less than three weeks before Paxton was set to stand trial on felony […]
Prosecutors have agreed to drop fraud charges against Texas Attorney
The special prosecutors would drop three felony counts against Ken Paxton
Despite the lawsuit predominantly revolving around the alleged foreclosure mill, Paxton had in the past raised concerns about the development attracting "foreign born consumers."
The iconic roadside mega gas station funded an initiative to send solar eclipse educational tools like lesson plans, classroom activities, virtual programs and educator training materials to participating districts around Texas free of charge.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sidesteps a criminal trial but ordinary
Klein Cain High School officials sent a notification to parents on Tuesday that a 17-year-old senior was arrested and immediately expelled after he was found with a loaded gun on campus.