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AG Paxton Committed No Crime: Texas Attorney General Clears Self of Bribery Accusations in Unsigned Reporthttps://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/ag-paxton-committed-no-crime-texas-attorney-general-clears-self-of-bribery-accusations-in-unsigned-report/
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), who has spent the better part of six-year tenure under indictment for securities fraud, committed no crime. Thats the finding of a new report by Paxtons office clearing the attorney general of unrelated bribery accusations leveled against him by his former employees.
AG Paxtons actions were lawful, and consistent with his legal duties and prior actions taken by Attorneys General of Texas, the first bullet point of his executive summary states. AG Paxton committed no crime.
In a report totaling 374 pages with exhibits, Paxtons office found that the former employees alleging otherwise have no evidence of a quid pro quothat Latin phrase meaning this for that, the type of transactions forbidden by public office holders under anti-corruption law.
Several of Paxtons ex-top aidesdescribed in the report as the Complainantsaccused him of improper influence in the case of Austin real estate investor Nate Paul, who donated to the attorney generals 2018 re-election campaign. They claimed the attorney general performed a series of favors for Paul, allegedly in return for a job for Paxtons mistress, according to the Houston Chronicle. Paul has been under a lengthy FBI investigation, and the investors properties in the Lone Star States capital were raided on Aug. 19, 2020.
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Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports: The FBI just declined comment to me on this report and the state of their investigation.
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Texas Attorney General Clears Self of Bribery Accusations in Unsigned Report (Original Post)
zuul
Aug 2021
OP
He should have excused himself and/or his office from such a blatant, self-serving attempt
SWBTATTReg
Aug 2021
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SoCalDavidS
(9,998 posts)1. This Country
LOL!!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)2. Say this for Paxton
He knows his constituency will go for this. I like the executive summary statement that "AG Paxton committed no crime" and its eerie echo of "Pinochet did nothing wrong" so popular with the latter day Nazis.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)3. Oh, whew. Glad that's taken care, then.
MiniMe
(21,677 posts)4. Seems a bit unkosher!
Kid Berwyn
(14,653 posts)5. "He who excuses him, accuses himself."
Gabriel Meurier
Grins
(7,135 posts)6. Imagine if a Democrat had done this...
The screaming from the Reich-wing Outrage and Hate factory would go into overdrive.
Exonerated himself. As the church lady would say
Mersky
(4,969 posts)7. What a tool, so tired of his BS. Ugh.
Corrupt and dumb
why does he even bother with this? No ones buying it. Is a fig leaf made of glass magnifying whats wrong with his use of office. Gah.
Deserves to be disbarred.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)8. He should have excused himself and/or his office from such a blatant, self-serving attempt
to find himself innocent. Who in their right mind would believe this? It is tainted from the get go.
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)9. Sounds like Billy Barr's summary of the Mueller Report.......
a connected band of Thieves and Crooks!