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Texas Attorney General Surrenders on Fraud Indictment

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R), the state’s top law enforcement officer, turned himself into jail to be booked on felony securities fraud charges, the Texas Tribune reports.

“Wearing a pin-striped suit and a red tie, he smiled slightly for his mugshot. Then, he was promptly released from the Collin County Jail on $35,000 bond… Afterward, he apparently slipped out of the courthouse undetected, avoiding the throng of waiting media and Democratic protesters.”

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