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TexasTowelie

(126,244 posts)
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 06:34 PM Dec 2015

Paxton Donor Targets Special Prosecutors' Fees

Last edited Wed Dec 30, 2015, 07:20 PM - Edit history (1)

MCKINNEY -- A prominent real estate developer has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop payments to the private attorneys appointed to prosecute Attorney General Ken Paxton — the latest twist in the Republican’s securities fraud case.

Jeff Blackard, a Paxton donor, filed the lawsuit in Collin County District Court, arguing that the county was paying too much to the attorneys prosecuting Paxton, violating local rules for such payments.

“This lawsuit seeks to halt a threatened expenditure of public funds that would unlawfully serve to enrich private attorneys at the expense of taxpayers in Collin County, Texas,” says the complaint, filed on behalf of Blackard and “similarly situated taxpayers.”

Blackard says he lives in Hopkins County but pays taxes for two parcels of property in Collin County, along with local sales taxes.

Read more: http://www.texastribune.org/2015/12/30/paxton-supporter-sues-over-targets-special-prosecu/

[font color=330099]So Ken found himself a water carrier?[/font]

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Paxton Donor Targets Special Prosecutors' Fees (Original Post) TexasTowelie Dec 2015 OP
Amazing how corrupt and disgusting all cons are. randys1 Dec 2015 #1
This is going to lower legal fees? Downwinder Dec 2015 #2
Let's hope that they make the developer pay the defendants legal fees TexasTowelie Dec 2015 #3
Collin County has an affluenza problem. Downwinder Dec 2015 #4

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. Amazing how corrupt and disgusting all cons are.
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 06:37 PM
Dec 2015

They lie about everything, always.

They seek to NEVER accept responsibility for their acts.

Purely fucking disgusting

TexasTowelie

(126,244 posts)
3. Let's hope that they make the developer pay the defendants legal fees
Wed Dec 30, 2015, 07:21 PM
Dec 2015

when he loses the case. The Paxton team is desperate.

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