It's been nearly seven years since Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was indicted on felony securities fraud charges.
Once, nearly a year passed with no movement in the case at all.
Wheat is dubious that a trial will ever happen. “And by the time it does, if it ever does, will it have any significance left to it?" he said. The indictments accuse Paxton of defrauding investors in a Dallas-area tech startup by not disclosing he was being paid by the company, called Servergy, to recruit them. The indictments were handed up just months after Paxton was sworn in as Texas’ top law enforcement officer.
“In fact, Mr. Paxton invoked his right to speedy trial. Mr. Paxton is innocent of these charges and sought to have his day in a proper court long ago," he said in a statement. . In Texas, attorneys and legal experts struggled to recall a case that has stretched as long as Paxton's without a resolution.
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