The state’s highest civil court narrowly denied Nate Paul’s petition in a 5-4 decision. He had been sentenced to 10 days in jail by a Travis County judge.
A real estate investor accused of bribing the Texas attorney general is facing jail time after the Texas Supreme Court denied his appeal of an order holding him in contempt for lying in court. The state’s highest civil court narrowly denied Nate Paul’s petition in a 5-4 decision. Paul had been sentenced to 10 days in jail by a Travis County judge.
Austin investor embroiled in FBI investigation of AG Ken Paxton faces 10 days in jail The Austin-based investor was central to the Texas House’s impeachment case against Attorney General Ken Paxton and was accused of offering him home renovations and other favors in exchange for legal help. Paxton was impeached last fall by the majority-Republican House but acquitted by the Senate.
Paxton donor Nate Paul charged with four new wire fraud counts “We are ecstatic,” said Ray Chester, a lawyer for the Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation, an Austin-based nonprofit suing Paul for fraud in the underlying case. “We feel like justice prevailed.
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