Investigators are looking into real estate purchases made by impeached Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
They include land purchases in resort areas of Utah and Hawaii, along with two houses near Orlando.
The journal said bank and trust records on the purchases were ordered by the Texas House Investigations Committee, the same committee that recommended articles of impeachment.The Texas House voted 121-23 to impeach Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton is suspended from office until the result of a trial in the senate.
Paxton's attorney told the paper his client took advantage of low interest rates at the time to transfer his savings from a brokerage into real estate.
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