Texas AG settles with former aides who reported him to FBI

Published February 10, 2023 9:17 AM

By JAKE BLEIBERG
Associated Press

DALLAS (AP) — Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has agreed to apologize and pay $3.3 million in taxpayer money to four former staffers who accused him of corruption in 2020, igniting an ongoing FBI investigation into the three-term Republican. Under terms of a preliminary lawsuit settlement, Paxton made no admission of wrongdoing to accusations of bribery and abuse of office. He has denied his former deputy’s claims for years, calling them politically motivated. The settlement was filed Friday in a whistleblower lawsuit brought by four of the eight staffers who reported Paxton to the FBI. All eight subsequently quit or were fired.

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