Unexplained Caribbean and European trips that cost taxpayers more than $90,000. A $600 sports coat paid for by an event organizer. A $45 office Christmas cake taken as his own.
These are among the perks that Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton ‘s former employees say he reveled in while using his office in ways that now have him facing a federal criminal investigation and potential ouster over allegations of corruption.
Paxton’s impeachment trial that starts Tuesday covers years of highly publicized scandal, criminal charges and whistleblower accounts from his inner circle.
Now that’s just unbelievably miserly. What tiny fraction of his income must that be?
His income’s listed in the article.
His wife is described as having an income well below poverty level; including it would not change the numbers significantly.
I saw the income, I’m just bad at math.