KUT: Texas AG Ken Paxton is shielding details about his real estate buying spree from the state

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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has purchased millions of dollars’ worth of properties in recent years. So why is he keeping them secret?
Paxton and his blind trust have been on a real estate buying spree since 2021, more than doubling his holdings by purchasing land and homes from Hawaii to Florida.

But of the 10 properties the attorney general or his blind trust currently own, just one was listed on his most recent official financial statement. That’s even fewer than last year, when The Texas Newsroom first reported that Paxton did not disclose all of his properties to state ethics regulators.
Experts said Paxton appeared to be violating state ethics rules. Elected officials are required to report all properties they own to the Texas Ethics Commission. But at the time, the attorney general said he was not breaking the law and called it “some made-up issue.”

Paxton’s spokespeople did not answer questions about why he’s choosing to disclose even less about his properties this year. One former ethics regulator says the attorney general’s financial disclosures — or lack thereof — appear to be ripe for investigation.
https://www.kut.org/2024-09-18/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-homes-houses-property-ownership-transparency-ethics/blockquote]

This link may work LOL: https://www.kut.org/2024-09-18/texas-attorney-general-ken-paxton-homes-houses-property-ownership-transparency-ethics

Does anybody think we'll get some investigating?