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https://www.texastribune.org/2024/03/22/ken-paxton-texas-securities-fraud-felony-plea-deal/

Lawyers in Ken Paxton's felony securities fraud case are in talks about a deal to drop the charges facing the Republican attorney general if he performs community service and pays restitution, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Paxton, who has been under indictment on two first-degree fraud charges and a third-degree charge since 2015, was scheduled for a final pretrial hearing on Tuesday ahead of an April 15 trial in Houston. He is accused of soliciting investors in a McKinney technology company more than a decade ago without disclosing that the firm was paying him to promote its stock. He is also charged with steering clients to a friends investment advising business without registering with the state securities board.

The case has been delayed by a number of disputes between Paxtons attorneys and the special prosecutors handling the case, including over how much the prosecutors should be paid. The sides have also sparred over where the trial should take place.

Republicans are tough on crime when a rape victim gets an abortion or a black man smokes a joint and soft on crime when a rich white man commits financial crimes. The Party of Personal Accountability my ass.