{"id":45158,"date":"2020-11-18T21:15:52","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45158"},"modified":"2020-11-18T21:15:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-18T21:15:52","slug":"fbi-now-probing-texas-ag-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=45158","title":{"rendered":"FBI now probing Texas AG? Wow!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=FBI%20%23KenPaxton%20%23securitiesfraud%20%23whistleblower&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_10788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10788\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ken-paxton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10788\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ken-paxton-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ken-paxton-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/ken-paxton.jpg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Photo by Erich Schlegel\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The hits just keep coming.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who&#8217;s been indicted and is awaiting trail on charges of securities fraud, is now under investigation by\u00a0<em>the <\/em>FBI for allegedly doing favors for a political donor.<\/p>\n<p>Good grief! The AG should resign! His credibility is in tatters. Several of his top legal eagles filed a whistleblower complaint against him, urging the feds to examine what they contend are a series of transgressions, which happen to include bribery.<\/p>\n<p>Now we hear from The Associated Press that the FBI is taking a hard look at what Paxton allegedly did.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2020\/11\/17\/texas-ken-paxton-fbi\/\">As the Texas Tribune has reported<\/a>: <em>Two unnamed sources\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/ken-paxton-austin-texas-crime-f8413d14842d848e69cf81bb4d2e87e2\">told the AP<\/a>\u00a0that the bureau was examining claims made by the whistleblowers that Paxton broke the law by intervening several times in legal matters involving Nate Paul, a real estate investor and friend who donated $25,000 to Paxton\u2019s campaign in 2018.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Oh, man! Don&#8217;t we deserve to have a chief state law enforcement officer who is clear of any sort of question or suspicion of wrongdoing? I happen to believe we do deserve better than we&#8217;re getting from this Republican attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>I stand by my call for Ken Paxton to resign. I don&#8217;t much care about his future. I <em>do<\/em> care about the questions that have sullied the high office he occupies.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=FBI%20%23KenPaxton%20%23securitiesfraud%20%23whistleblower&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By JOHN KANELIS \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com The hits just keep coming. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who&#8217;s been indicted and is awaiting trail on charges of securities fraud, is now under investigation by\u00a0the FBI for allegedly doing favors for a political donor. Good grief! 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