Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been under indictment on two first-degree fraud charges and a third-degree count since 2015, was scheduled for a final pretrial hearing on Tuesday ahead of an April 15 trial in Houston.
Jasper Scherer, The Texas TribuneWatch Eyewitness News and ABC13 originals around the clockLawyers in Ken Paxton's felony securities fraud case are in talks about a deal to drop the charges facing the Republican attorney general if he performs community service and pays restitution, according to thePaxton would also have to take advanced legal education courses under a "draft agreement" that would allow him to skirt next month's trial, the Statesman reported.
The case has been delayed by a number of disputes between Paxton's attorneys and the special prosecutors handling the case, including over how much the prosecutors should be paid. The sides have also sparred over where the trial should take place. The securities fraud case is separate from the more recent allegations from former top deputies who claim that Paxton accepted bribes and abused the authority of his office to help a wealthy friend and donor, Austin real estate mogul Nate Paul. Those claims were at the heart of Paxton's impeachment trial last year, in which he was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Texas Senate.
Meanwhile, the securities fraud case gained renewed momentum in November when Harris County District Judge Andrea Beall ended a dispute over back pay owed to Wice and a second prosecutor, Kent Schaffer, who has since stopped working on the case.
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