AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Unexplained Caribbean and European trips that cost taxpayers more than $90,000. A $600 sports coat paid for by an event organizer. A $45 office Christmas cake taken as his own.
These are among the perks that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s former employees say he reveled in while using his office in ways that now have him facing a federal criminal investigation and potential ouster over allegations of corruption.
Paxton entered the office of the chief law enforcer of Texas under felony securities fraud indictment (which he has used his office to delay trial for 5 years).
Hes charged with actually pretty venal bribery (including the man bribing him giving a job to Paxtons mistress and enabling burner phones to see and talk to her)
Why should anything else surprise us.