Former top aides allege TX AG Ken Paxton swapped political favors 4 home remodel, job for mistress

[MelissaB]

NEW: Former top aides allege Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton swapped political favors for home remodel, job for alleged "mistress."

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Lawsuit: Texas AG Ken Paxton swapped political favors for home remodel, job for alleged ‘mistress’

The new allegations offer up the most detailed theory to date about why Paxton helped Austin real estate developer Nate Paul even as his top aides balked at his behavior.

AUSTIN — Four former high ranking agency officials are accusing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton of swapping political favors for a donor’s help with a home remodel and a job for his alleged “mistress.”

The new, more detailed allegations, first reported by The Texas Tribune, were laid out in an updated court filing in a whistleblower lawsuit the former employees filed against Paxton in November. The lawsuit accuses Paxton of repeatedly abusing his position as the state’s top lawyer to help Nate Paul, an Austin real estate developer and campaign donor.

The four ex-officials said they received information “suggesting” Paul “either personally or through a construction company he owns and controls” was involved in a recent remodel of Paxton’s home in Austin, according to a copy of the filing The Dallas Morning News obtained Thursday afternoon.

They also claimed Paxton helped secure employment at one of Paul’s companies for a woman with whom Paxton allegedly had an affair. Paxton then helped Paul, they alleged, in return for his silence or to repay him for his assistance.

More: https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2021/02/11/lawsuit-texas-ag-ken-paxton-swapped-political-favors-for-home-remodel-job-for-alleged-mistress/

[dalton99a]

1. That corrupt fucker belongs in prison.

[monmouth4]

2. I can't believe he found a woman to be his "mistress." n/t

[Blue_true]

4. Goes to prove, there is someone for anyone. nt

[SCantiGOP]

5. It also proves Kissinger's observation:

Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

[Blue_true]

6. Yes. nt

[Blue_true]

3. I hope that Trump didn't give that asshole one of his secret pardons.

Paxton needs to go to jail. If the FEDs can’t get him, I doubt that the republican led state legal in Texas will put him away on state charges.

[Ilsa]

9. I think he might have auditioned for a pardon.

I have some recollection of TRMS covering Paxton trying to sue states like Georgia over voting for Biden. It was a ridiculous lawsuit.

[Blue_true]

14. Yes, he seemed to have been begging for a pardon with that lawsuit.

The premise of the suit was not only ridiculous, it also totally defied the Constitution giving states sole domain over their electoral process, as long as those processes did not disenfranchise state citizens. The federal government could delve into Georgia, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Michigan electoral administration, but Texas certainly could not.

[Mersky]

7. I'm sharing this right now

That corrupt, no good paxton STILL hasn’t gone to trial for his securities fraud indictment. He’s such a draining embarrassment who doesn’t deserve his title.

[Chainfire]

8. And the Republicans will be asking, "So What?"

[Mr.Bill]

10. I love being reminded that these republican knuckle-dragging

government officials have to live in or near Austin. It must drive them crazy.

[flying_wahini]

11. He's a tiny prick. Just can't stand him.

[czarjak]

12. Nooooooooooooooo...

Not Kennie!

[UTUSN]

13. K&R for, he's a PIECE, ain't he? --- A **p. o. s.**, that is. So righteous and moral (yeah-right).