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Published on December 13, 2024 - 18:14 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Stops Second Harris County “Guaranteed Income” Scheme, Preventing Public Money from ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a stay preventing Harris County from restarting its unlawful “guaranteed income” program after the County made an attempt to sidestep a court order halting a similar program. In April 2024, Attorney General Paxton sued …

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Published on December 13, 2024 - 04:01 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Launches Investigations into Character.AI, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, and Other Compa...

Attorney General Ken Paxton has launched investigations into Character.AI and fourteen other companies including Reddit, Instagram, and Discord regarding their privacy and safety practices for minors pursuant to the Securing Children Online through …

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Published on December 11, 2024 - 20:06 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Manufacturers of Toxic PFAS “Forever Chemicals” for Falsely Advertising House...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a groundbreaking new lawsuit against the largest manufacturers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) chemical products, 3M and DuPont, for misrepresentations and key omissions they made in advertising …

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Published on December 6, 2024 - 21:00 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Distributes Over $100,000 in Payments to Relieve Effect of Border Crime Through New Landowner ...

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has issued more than $100,000 of disbursements to Texans affected by border-related crimes through the new Landowner Compensation Program. On May 9, Attorney General Paxton launched the Landowner Compensation Program …

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Published on December 5, 2024 - 16:28 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Defeats Biden-Harris Administration’s Attempt to Force Texas Health Entities to Illegally Pro...

Attorney General Ken Paxton secured a major victory against the Biden-Harris Administration after suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) for unlawfully adopting a rule to nullify state laws that secure parents’ rights to consent to …

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Published on December 5, 2024 - 15:34 GMT

Nationwide Injunction Blocks Unconstitutional Law That Imposed Massive Costs on Small Businesses

Attorney General Ken Paxton applauded a major victory for Texas small businesses as a federal judge granted a nationwide preliminary injunction against an unconstitutional federal law that would have imposed major costs on tens of millions of small …

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Published on December 2, 2024 - 20:50 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Death Sentence For Murderer Who Killed a Police Officer While Carrying Drugs Across ...

LONGVIEW – Gregory Newson was sentenced to death for murdering a police officer in 2019. On December 31, 2019, Deputy William Christopher Dickerson was murdered by Newson during a traffic stop in Panola County around 2:00 AM while traveling through East …

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Published on November 27, 2024 - 14:22 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for Illegally Conspiring to Manipulate Energy ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices. Over …

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Published on November 26, 2024 - 18:40 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Austin Taxpayer-Funded “Homeless Navigation Center” for Facilitating Public Drug ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Austin-based Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center for operating as a common nuisance in violation of Texas law. Activities permitted by the center are drastically harming quality of life in the area and endangering …

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Published on November 26, 2024 - 15:55 GMT

At SCOTUS, Attorney General Ken Paxton Defends Texas Law Requiring Age Verification Measures for Pornography Sites; ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”), asking it to uphold House Bill 1181, a Texas law requiring pornography companies to institute reasonable age-verification measures to safeguard children from …

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Published on November 26, 2024 - 00:58 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden-Harris Administration for Unlawful Regulations Against Cryptocurrency ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton, as part of an 18-state coalition, sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and members of the Biden-Harris Administration for unlawfully promulgating sweeping new regulations on cryptocurrencies without any …

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Published on November 26, 2024 - 00:08 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Investigation Results in 10-Year Prison Sentence and Over $34 Million Restitution for ...

DALLAS – Daniel Ramiro Canchola, 54, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a $54 million health care fraud scheme. The scheme, uncovered by …

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Published on November 25, 2024 - 22:27 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Obtains 55-Year Sentence for Child Sex Offender in Nueces County

CORPUS CHRISTI – A jury in the 117th District Court of Nueces County, Texas, sentenced Lowell Williams to 40 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child and to 15 years for …

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Published on November 25, 2024 - 21:34 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Plays Key Role in Largest Ever Criminal Enforcement Action Tar...

HOUSTON – Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit played a pivotal role in an investigation leading to the successful federal prosecution of nine pharmaceutical distributor executives, sales representatives, and brokers involved in the …

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Published on November 22, 2024 - 22:26 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Criminal Justice Division Secures Life Sentence for Capital Murder in Midland

MIDLAND – A Midland County jury found Clinton Lee Young III guilty of capital murder for shooting Samuel Petrey in the head twice, in November 2001, at an oil lease site after carjacking him at gunpoint in Eastland, Texas. Young had stolen a .22 Colt …

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Published on November 22, 2024 - 21:33 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures 30-Year Sentence for Tyler County Man Convicted for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a ...

WOODVILLE – Michael Clint Wallace, Jr. of Warren, Texas, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child. The victim was a family member whom Wallace sexually assaulted over the course of approximately four …

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Published on November 22, 2024 - 20:39 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures Over $100 Million in Environmental Penalties From Company Responsible for 2019 ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a settlement of the State’s lawsuits against TPC Group Inc. and TPC Group, LLC, whose chemical manufacturing plant in Port Neches exploded in November 2019. The explosion forced thousands of Texans to evacuate their …

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Published on November 22, 2024 - 20:39 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Helps Secure Conviction of Houston Pharmacy Owner in $160M ...

HOUSTON – Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured justice as Mohamad Mokbel, a 59-year-old Houston man, was convicted on 15 counts of healthcare fraud for a massive pharmaceutical-compounding fraud scheme. Mokbel orchestrated the …

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Published on November 22, 2024 - 19:43 GMT

Texas Supreme Court Sides With Attorney General Paxton, Enabling Wasteful, Politically-Motivated Litigation with For...

In a major win for the State of Texas, the State Supreme Court has sided with Attorney General Paxton against former OAG employees whose effort to prolong costly, politically-motivated litigation against the Agency has wasted public resources for years. …

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Published on November 21, 2024 - 21:54 GMT

Attorney General Ken Paxton Urges Court to Prevent Jack Smith from Destroying Records Detailing Baseless Prosecution of ...

Attorney General Ken Paxton urged a federal court to grant an emergency motion for a preservation motion to prevent the U.S. Department of Justice from destroying any records concerning the baseless prosecution of President Donald Trump by Special …

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