Via the
New York Times:
Ken Paxton, the Republican attorney
general of Texas and a former state legislator, has been indicted by a
grand jury on charges of securities fraud and of failing to register
with the state securities board, officials said. The grand jury in the
northern Dallas suburb of McKinney handed up a three-count indictment
against Mr. Paxton on Tuesday, the officials said. The indictment is to
be unsealed on Monday, when Mr. Paxton is expected to turn himself in to
the authorities at the Collin County Jail. The charges — two counts of
first-degree securities fraud and one count of third-degree failure to
register — are tied to Mr. Paxton’s work soliciting clients and
investors for two companies while he was a member of the Texas House of
Representatives, before he was elected attorney general in November.
RELATED: Several days after the
Obergefell ruling, Paxton
declared that county clerks were allowed to refuse to issue same-sex marriage licenses.
Reposted from Joe Jervis
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