Today the Texas Senate will decide the rules for Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial. The state’s top lawyer faces 20 articles of impeachment that...
Lawmakers write the state’s two-year budget.
That year a Collin County grand jury indicted him for allegedly persuading friends to invest in a McKinney technology company called Servergy Inc. without telling them he received 100,000 shares of stock. Paxton was also indicted for allegedly funneling clients to a friend’s investment firm without being registered with the state.
If convicted, Paxton could face two to 10 years in prison for the third-degree felony and five to 99 years for each of the first-degree felonies, as well as fines.
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