Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office is 'unmoored by disarray,' an AP report has found. | via TexasStandard
This transcript has been edited lightly for clarity:You write that, behind the scenes, the Texas attorney general’s office has become “unmoored by disarray.” Tell us a little bit more about what you mean by that, specifically. That’s right. So in the two years since eight of Paxton’s top deputies went to the FBI and accused him of crimes, we’ve seen a real exodus from the office of senior lawyers, and especially senior lawyers with specialized areas of legal practice.
That’s right. This happened back in January of 2021. A friend and supporter of General Paxton’s, whose family had given some money to General Paxton’s legal defense fund, was brought in in a senior position as an adviser to the Criminal Investigations Division. And he was ultimately fired just under eight weeks into the job after he displayed child pornography in a meeting in an effort to prove a point about how difficult the work of the criminal investigators was.
So this report in the Associated Press was the product of months of work by colleagues and I, and a lot of that was talking to people who currently work for the agency who aren’t allowed to talk to the press, and then people who used to work there.
Ken Paxton unfortunately didn’t take me up on repeated offers to him and his staff to talk to me about the story. I really wanted to understand the attorney general’s perspective on this and sort of his view of what’s going on in his office. But so far, they’ve had nothing to say that I’m aware of.
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