October 28, 2014      10:11 AM
District judge dismisses emergency motion to release documents in Paxton felony complaint
Will privacy defense be left to Paxton's own office, if elected?
Paperwork
around Attorney General candidate Ken Paxton’s violation of the Texas Securities Act will not be
released before the upcoming November election, a district judge in Travis
County decided last week.
The Texas
Coalition on Lawyer Accountability, which
also pursued complaints against former Williamson County district attorneys John
Bradley and Ken Anderson in the
false conviction of Michael Morton,
sued the Texas State Securities Board for an emergency release of
paperwork around Paxton’s admissions. Paxton acknowledged under oath to the
board he had committed a number of violations to the securities act by failing
to disclose he was a paid investment adviser for his former business partner.
This
would be a separate action from the Texans for Public Justice’s efforts
to get Paxton’s actions investigated by the Travis County District Attorney’s Public
Integrity Unit. District Attorney
Rosemary Lehmberg announced the complaint would
not be investigated so close to election time, as was custom with the office.
By Kimberly Reeves
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