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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsUh-oh, PAXTON's prosecutor is "ethical" - magnet for DRUMPF subverting with a Pardon
What do DRUMPF-PAXTON love more than subverting, undermining anybody and any institutional norms that are ETHICAL.
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https://news.yahoo.com/fbi-probe-texas-ag-faces-140140553.html
In FBI probe, Texas AG faces aggressive, ethical prosecutor
DALLAS (AP) Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has spent years dodging legal and public relations blows that might have knocked others out of politics. The Republican has so far proven too wily for political opponents and prosecutors, winning reelection and rising to national prominence as a conservative crusader even while under felony indictment. .
Overseeing the effort is San Antonio-based Assistant U.S. Attorney Joe Blackwell .
Blackwell, who coordinates public integrity cases across a region stretching more than 500 miles (800 kilometers) to El Paso, is a hard-charging but fair prosecutor, according to former colleagues and opposing lawyers alike. He has a knack for boiling down the complex facts of white-collar investigations, a down-to-earth demeanor and slight Louisiana accent that endears him to juries. .
Before joining the U.S. attorney's office, he worked as a military prosecutor and in private practice, former colleagues said.
Blackwell handled a variety of immigration, narcotics, financial crime and other cases in El Paso before moving to San Antonio, where he began prosecuting more complex white-collar cases. His most high-profile case was the 2018 money laundering and fraud trial of former state Sen. Carlos Uresti. .
No politics plays into his analysis whatsoever, said Benites Giese, who is now in private practice.
Politics has, however, been part of Paxton's defense strategy. .
A broad pardon would foreclose federal prosecution. But it would not necessarily end the investigation into Paxton, according David Crump, a professor at the University of Houston Law Center. He said it's possible the FBI could hand off its findings to state prosecutors. .
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Uh-oh, PAXTON's prosecutor is "ethical" - magnet for DRUMPF subverting with a Pardon (Original Post)
UTUSN
Dec 2020
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paleotn
(17,989 posts)1. And he may find that Donnie isn't very generous....
After all, Paxton's little suit failed, didn't it? Poopy Pants only pays for results.
Merlot
(9,696 posts)2. "...ethical prosecutor?"
WTF?