Underscoring all of the ongoing primary challenges to Attorney General Ken Paxton have been the allegations of bribery and abuse of office made against him by former top employees of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG).
Four of those former top aides — James Blake Brickman, Mark Penley, Ryan Vassar, and David Maxwell — filed a lawsuit against the OAG under the Texas Whistleblower Act in November 2020.
Until now — almost a week before the GOP primary election — those former employees largely kept their allegations against Paxton within the context of the lawsuit that has moved slowly through the courts.
“Our preference was to remain silent while the wheels of justice turned, and our civil case progressed in the courts,” they said in a new statement. “However, in recent weeks, Paxton has made numerous false and misleading public statements that we feel obligated to correct.”
The former aides pointed specifically to two interviews that Paxton has conducted in recent weeks — one with radio host Mark Davis on January 31 and another with Brandon Waltens of the Texas Scorecard that was published on February 9.
One of the claims made by Paxton that they dispute was when he stated, “Even today, this is a year and a half later, we don’t know what the specific allegations are.”
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