Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is in some serious hot water.
The state senate will vote to impeach him within the coming weeks.
With 22 articles of impeachment, the accusations are numerous.
One of them points to a potential securities fraud situation. Another singles out the time Paxton tried to get the state legislature to approve $3 million of taxpayer funds to settle a lawsuit saying the Attorney General presided over a hostile workplace.
The internal investigations are still happening, so more and more damning evidence will slowly trickle out.
The arrest of Paxton’s close business associate Thursday will probably help with those matters.
Nate Paul, an Austin-based real estate executive, is at the center of Paxton’s impeachment.
The articles states that Paul enlisted Paxton to get his office to write a legal opinion that would get Paul to avoid forclosures on various properties his company owned.
Paul has given Paxton hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions.
Paul had served as one of the main catalyst for Paxton’s impeachment. This arrest should cement the votes to throw the Attorney General out of office for good.
Paxton, however, isn’t going down without a fight. He called the whole impeachment a “politically motivated scam.”
Good luck with that.
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