AUSTIN, Texas A personal injury lawyer hired by Ken Paxton to investigate crimes that wealthy political donor Nate Paul alleged testified before the Senate on Tuesday that he was duped by the now-impeached attorney general.
It was the sixth day of testimony in the impeachment trial of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton with the senate jury focused on clandestine investigation which prosecutors call an "abuse of power".
The historic impeachment trial of suspended Attorney General Ken Paxton is underway in the Texas Senate. He faces 16 articles of impeachment that accuse him of misusing the powers of the attorney general’s office to help his friend and donor Nate Paul, an Austin real estate investor who was under federal investigation.
Impeachment managers signaled they planned to call Laura Olson, the suspended attorney general's alleged affair partner, as a witness sometime this afternoon. Wednesday's testimony included a former Paxton assistant and friend who grew concerned over connections between the AG's home renovations and Nate Paul, the businessman at the center of the impeachment trial.