Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton has been charged to court, after more than 4,000 pages of documents were filed publicly to support his impeachment.
The documents contained emails, multiple cellphones and an alias on a ride-sharing app to conceal an affair. According to their investigation, he also pressured his aides to help a donor who is now facing criminal charges.
Speaking on the issue, Mark Penley, one of Paxton’s former deputies, told investigators during a deposition in March.
“It’s a complicated story. But if you understand what was going on, this was outrageous conduct by an Attorney General that’s supposed to be the chief law enforcement officer for the State of Texas, not the chief lawbreaking officer.”
The documents also contains the full story of the whole case, since 2020, after eight of his highest-ranking deputies, including Penley, staged an extraordinary revolt in 2020 and reported him to the FBI.
In December 2019, Penley told investigators, Paxton met him at a Starbucks in a wealthy Dallas area and asked him to take a phone call with him inside a car in the parking lot.
Penley said the call was with Paul and that Paxton described him as a friend who was having issues with the FBI.
Months later, Paxton pressed Penley to approve paying an outside attorney whom Paxton had hired to look into Paul’s claims.
Paul was arrested in June and charged with making false statements to banks in order to procure more than $170 million in loans.
