Posted on 04/11/2016 2:06:43 PM PDT by PAR35
AUSTIN – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on Monday charged Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with civil securities fraud for promoting a North Texas tech firm, adding to the first-term Republican’s growing legal woes.
Paxton was charged with persuading others to buy stock in North Texas tech firm Servergy, Inc. without disclosing he was being paid to promote the company. The attorney general, a Republican from McKinney, also faces criminal fraud charges in Texas for these same allegations. ...
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Is this another Tom Delay deal?
To the rest of you...You're from Texas or have lived there.
I remember when DeLay got indicted; I remember when Gov. Perry got indicted after that female govt. employee got fired for trying the "Don't you know who I am?" gambit during a drunk-driving investigation.
This is the first I've heard of this one.
Did the guy do anything, or is this Obama picking on Texas?
Doesn’t appear so, according to the allegations I’ve read. Clients of a financial advisor appear to the be complainants, so if it is a Vast Left Wing Conspiracy then it involves the public as well
Don’t tell me this is a all roads lead to Travis County kind of thing.
I don’t want to express any opinion as to the facts of the case - I might get lucky and get called for the jury.
I do want to emphasize that it’s a lot different for a Republican being indicted in left wing Travis county (Kay Bailey Hutchinson, Tom Delay, Rick Perry) and being indicted in heavily Republican Collin County (Paxton).
On the other hand, infighting at the courthouse north of McKinney can get vicious. A judge was charged with bribery; she tried to go after the ADA, the Clerk of Court got run out of office; and another judge was carrying on an adulterous affair with the DA at the time (almost had a death penalty overturned when that came out.)
Not a Travis County deal. Collin county politics. They did have import judges and special prosecutors since the court house crowd all know each other too well.
actually he did do something wrong..he admitted it and paid a fine. The Texas case is political because he’s already settled the matter.
I’m still not sure but I’m inclined to see it as part of the pattern you observed in your post.
Frustrated dems are increasingly resorting to their limited prosecutor roles to attempt to criminalize republican governance
Little of both. He technically broke the law, but the fact that his is a Republican means he gets a attention that a democrat would not.
American courts are corrupt.
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