AUSTIN, Texas — The defense lawyer for Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the impeached official's former top aide of stabbing his boss in the back by going to the FBI with concerns before adequately confronting Paxton.
Tony Buzbee, the Houston attorney leading Paxton's defense team, sought to paint Jeff Mateer, the former first assistant attorney general and top deputy, as disloyal and wrong to assume Paxton was at fault during a cross-examination on Wednesday."You told us Ken Paxton was your friend," Buzbee said.
The revelation of Paxton hiring Cammack became more concerning to Mateer when he learned that Cammack had been identifying himself in legal proceedings as a representative of the attorney's general office as he subpoenaed banks involved in the Paul case since Cammack did not work in his office."We considered it a crisis moment," Mateer said."Everything involving Mr. Paul was coming to a head.
Mateer and the deputies went to the FBI on Sept. 30, 2020. Not only had Paxton hired Cammack to get involved in legal proceedings unrelated to anything in his office, but Paxton had intervened in a lawsuit that involved Paul and a nonprofit organization, as well as halted a foreclosure sale of one of Paul's properties despite issuing pandemic-related guidance that would have gone against the foreclosure move, he alleged on the stand.
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