[Breaking] Texas lawmakers IMPEACH Attorney General Ken Paxton

double post

 

Also Paxton's wife is in the senate.

 

Texas state senate working on a Federal holiday...

 

I applaud the gop for doing this, but man the charges had to be so huge that they could no longer look the other way, now will the Senate do the right thing.................I dont trust wheels or d patrick. I will be shocked if the senate actually does it. How this guy has lasted this long shows you all you need to know about Texas Politics...........you literally have to have SO MANY charges against you that it simply cannot be ignored. If there is a swamp that actually needs to be drained it should start in Austin

 

It's funny reading elsewhere how people think his wife will vote against him. She was the one who picked out the $20k granite countertops.

 

MAGANIFICENT!!

 

By and large it doesn't sound like Paxton will be held accountable... Listening to Patrick it's Phelan who's dead man walking.


Relevant parts start from 17:56 & 57:52


https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/28/texas-angela-paxton/
"According to the investigation commissioned by the House General Investigating Committee, an employee with the attorney general’s office was present for a conversation about the house’s granite countertops.

“General Paxton relays that now Senator Angela Paxton did not like the counters and wanted to change them,” the investigators recounted in a public hearing last week. “The contractor advises that that upgrade will cost $20,000. General Paxton indicates that he’d like to proceed, and the contractor ... response was, ‘I’ll have to check with Nate.""


https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/why-texas-ag-ken-paxtons-impeachment-fight-isnt-over
"Another Republican senator with a potential conflict is Sen. Bryan Hughes. The House impeachment articles accuse Paxton of using Hughes as a “straw requestor” for a legal opinion used to protect Paul from foreclosure on several properties."

"Republican Party Chairman Matt Rinaldi, a Paxton ally, said the party would have to rely on the “principled leadership of the Texas Senate to restore sanity and reason.”"

 

Dan Patrick and his kind are the problem with the good old boy politics in Texas, there all guilty of something so they cant eat their own because they know they all have skeletons, its so disgusting that are leaders are such immoral aholes who like to act like upstanding Christians who are actually scumbags. Yet people keep voting them in

 

Does it seem odd that the gop house would hire two defense attorneys to prosecute the gop state attorney general?



Dick DeGuerin being the other...

 

Rusty Hardin vs Dick DeGuerin is like Godzilla vs Kong. The Ghost of Joe Jamail is up there in the clouds telling both them assholes exactly how there're ****ing wrong.

I like it, I just wish it was in an actual courtroom.

 

The Lebron James of lawyers.

 

Nate Paul, Austin developer at center of Ken Paxton impeachment, arrested in Travis County

Nate Paul, the Austin real estate developer central to allegations of illegal conduct by Ken Paxton, Texas’ now-suspended attorney general, was arrested by the FBI on Thursday.

Paul was booked into the Travis County Jail at 4:25 p.m. on a federal warrant, said Kristen Dark, a spokesperson for the Travis County Sheriff’s Office. The nature of the charges against him have not been publicly disclosed.

Paul’s attorney did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Calls to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District and Paxton were also not immediately returned.

A spokesperson for the FBI office in San Antonio declined comment, citing Justice Department guidelines.


It’s not immediately clear whether his arrest is related to the allegations against Paxton, but Paul is at the center of the abuse-of-office complaints against the three-term Republican attorney general who was impeached by the Texas House last month. Paxton is currently suspended from his official duties and awaiting an impeachment trial in the Senate, which would require a two-thirds vote to permanently remove him from office.

Early in his career as an investor, Paul was heralded as a rising star in the real estate world and a self-made tycoon worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Through his investment firm, World Class Capital Group, Paul was one of the largest real estate owners in Austin for a time.

But in 2019, the FBI and U.S. Department of Treasury agents raided Paul’s home and business offices. Additionally, Paul filed for at least 18 bankruptcies. Soon after, Paul’s complicated history with Paxton came to light.

Before the FBI raid, Paul made a $25,000 political donation to Paxton in October 2018. Following the donation, multiple senior aides in Paxton’s office accused the attorney general of using his office to help Paul’s business interests, investigate Paul’s adversaries and to help settle a lawsuit. In filings, the former aides described Paxton’s motivations as a “bizarre, obsessive use of power.”

The former top aides said in return Paul helped Paxton fund an extensive remodel of his Austin house and gave a job to a woman with whom Paxton allegedly had an affair. Paxton is married to state Sen. Angela Paxton, R-McKinney. These allegations sparked an FBI investigation.

Those who accused Paxton of bribery were subsequently fired, resigned or put on leave by the attorney general. In response, four of those aides sued Paxton in November 2020, claiming their firings were retaliation for reporting Paxton’s misconduct.

In February, Paxton agreed to apologize and settle the case. He subsequently asked lawmakers to use taxpayer dollars to pay the $3.3 million settlement to the whistleblowing staffers.

But the request was too much for lawmakers. The House General Investigating Committee quietly launched an investigation into Paxton in March and on May 25 the committee recommended 20 articles of impeachment against the attorney general.


The committee accused the Republican official of a range of criminal acts centering on his entanglement with Paul. The Texas House voted 121-23 to suspend the attorney general and refer him to the Senate for trial. A date for the trial, which will occur before Aug. 28, has not yet been set.

Earlier this week, Paxton hired Tony Buzbee, a prominent Houston attorney, to lead his defense team. The House hired two top Texas lawyers, Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin, to lead prosecution against Paxton, both of whom have represented high-profile athletes, celebrities and politicians in criminal and civil investigations.

In March, Paul was ordered to spend 10 days in jail after being found in contempt of court in a case related to the allegations against Paxton. In that case, Paul was fined $180,000 for lying in district court about money transfers he made in violation of a court order in a lawsuit filed by The Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation, an Austin-based nonprofit that sued Paul for fraud.

Paul lost an appeal of that contempt of court finding and was ordered to jail in March. But he appealed again to the Texas Supreme Court, which blocked his jail order temporarily and is still considering that appeal.


The whistleblowers in the Paxton case accused their former boss of overriding a decision by his agency’s Charitable Trust Division and directing his office to intervene in the Mitte Foundation lawsuit against Paul. This was odd, according to the whistleblowers, because they said the attorney general had never shown interest in a charity case before.

The whistleblowers claimed Paxton got the attorney general's office involved in the case to benefit Paul by trying to cut down the costs that Paul had to pay to the nonprofit.

Disclosure: Dick DeGuerin and Rusty Hardin have been financial supporters of The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan news organization that is funded in part by donations from members, foundations and corporate sponsors. Financial supporters play no role in the Tribune’s journalism. Find a complete list of them here.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/08/nate-paul-arrested-ken-paxton-impeachment/

 

I bet Paxton is glad Trump got indicted. No one has room left in their brains to think about his malfeasance.

 

Man, I wish Rusty Hardin would team up with Buzbee.....that would be fun

 

What makes you think he isn't...

 

His name sounds like the fat guy spreading rumors of leaving the Nets and coming back to Houston.

 

Buzbee is representing Paxton, so they'll be up against each other...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/...of-state-attorney-general-ken-paxton-00101206

Tony Buzbee, a prominent Houston attorney who was hired by Paxton over the weekend and led the news conference, said by email Thursday that receipts “clearly demonstrate” Paxton paid for the repairs. He did not address questions about the timing of the payments or Cupertino Builders.

 

dam.....for this round I am glad we have Rusty doing the prosecuting. How ironic they will square off in this case