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During cross-examination, it was noted that disgruntled employees of the Office of the Attorney General (OAG) went to the FBI on September 30 regarding potential unlawful conduct by Paxton. The very next day, Bush reactivated his law license after a 10-year hiatus.
Furthermore, many of the whistleblowers had retained Bush-affiliated lawyer Johnny Sutton to represent them in the matter. However, during the trial, it was revealed that Sutton had not charged them over the course of three years and that fees had hardly been discussed.
Ryan Vassar explained, "He has agreed to bill us at a future date."
Sutton was the criminal justice policy director for George P. Bush's uncle, George W. Bush while the latter served as the governor of Texas. Sutton also led the Department of Justice transition team for George W. Bush after he was elected president.
Bush then named Sutton associate deputy attorney general before appointing him as U.S. attorney for the Western District of Texas, a position he held from November 2001 to April 2009.
Sutton also notoriously prosecuted several border patrol agents while acting as a U.S. attorney, apparently giving drug traffickers legal immunity in order to secure the agents' convictions. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) claimed Sutton had a "prosecutorial over-reaction" following a congressional hearing on the subject in 2007.
"You weren't going after cartels in this case," the senator said. "You were going after Border Patrol agents."
Throughout the case, Sutton was "vigorously supported" by President George W. Bush, while congressmen called the prosecutions "the worst betrayal of American defenders I have ever seen," per the Washington Times. Bush eventually commuted the agents' sentences in 2009, but President Donald Trump actually pardoned them in 2020.
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Houstonag said:
Paxton did not break the law. There is no evidence and the prosecutors have even tried to exclude documents of receipts where he paid the hardware store for home improvements. Total fraud and dishonest tactics. Lslw Old man Bush is turning over in his grave about the actions of his sons and grandson.
Pookers said:Houstonag said:
Paxton did not break the law. There is no evidence and the prosecutors have even tried to exclude documents of receipts where he paid the hardware store for home improvements. Total fraud and dishonest tactics. Lslw Old man Bush is turning over in his grave about the actions of his sons and grandson.
Old man bush was the biggest dirtbag of the family.
Shoefly! said:Pookers said:Houstonag said:
Paxton did not break the law. There is no evidence and the prosecutors have even tried to exclude documents of receipts where he paid the hardware store for home improvements. Total fraud and dishonest tactics. Lslw Old man Bush is turning over in his grave about the actions of his sons and grandson.
Old man bush was the biggest dirtbag of the family.
He's the main reason we haven't seen the Kennedy assassin papers!
As long as I'm still allowed to have two hands in the bush, I don't begrudge you keeping a Paxton in hand.ChemEAg08 said:
Paxton haters and fellow CMs/leftists are not going to like this
What about...C@LAg said:
ban Bushes from Texas.
everywhere.
I don't understand that at all. I don't care if the whistleblower statute awards attorney fees or not. Lawyer still has to prove those with fee agreements, hours and costs, etc.Quote:
Interesting in light of the fact that Sutton hasn't been charging the whistleblowers or even have a fee/payment agreement with them. Surely nothing to see here ....
aggiehawg said:I don't understand that at all. I don't care if the whistleblower statute awards attorney fees or not. Lawyer still has to prove those with fee agreements, hours and costs, etc.Quote:
Interesting in light of the fact that Sutton hasn't been charging the whistleblowers or even have a fee/payment agreement with them. Surely nothing to see here ....
Shoefly! said:Pookers said:Houstonag said:
Paxton did not break the law. There is no evidence and the prosecutors have even tried to exclude documents of receipts where he paid the hardware store for home improvements. Total fraud and dishonest tactics. Lslw Old man Bush is turning over in his grave about the actions of his sons and grandson.
Old man bush was the biggest dirtbag of the family.
He's the main reason we haven't seen the Kennedy assassin papers!
I faced a problem like that when i was practicing back then. My client was not paying his legal bills, someone else was. And I had to ask who was actually my my client? Because back then, that was not a good situation for a lawyer to being paid by someone else who may have different goals?91AggieLawyer said:aggiehawg said:I don't understand that at all. I don't care if the whistleblower statute awards attorney fees or not. Lawyer still has to prove those with fee agreements, hours and costs, etc.Quote:
Interesting in light of the fact that Sutton hasn't been charging the whistleblowers or even have a fee/payment agreement with them. Surely nothing to see here ....
It makes no sense. I covered this on another thread.
Sgt. Schultz said:
Wow, I suspected something was up involving the establishment Bush wing of the republican party and the Paxton but it seems my instincts could be correct. Watching the impeachment thing for the past week, the case against Paxton seems to be based on "he didn't do what we wanted and we didn't like it." Appears to be a politically driven witch hunt.
You don't agree with my take so you're violating the aggie code of honor. Classic.sanangelo said:Sgt. Schultz said:
Wow, I suspected something was up involving the establishment Bush wing of the republican party and the Paxton but it seems my instincts could be correct. Watching the impeachment thing for the past week, the case against Paxton seems to be based on "he didn't do what we wanted and we didn't like it." Appears to be a politically driven witch hunt.
Did you truthfully watch the hearings? Aggie code of honor? Because that's not near the impression I have from watching them.
sanangelo said:Sgt. Schultz said:
Wow, I suspected something was up involving the establishment Bush wing of the republican party and the Paxton but it seems my instincts could be correct. Watching the impeachment thing for the past week, the case against Paxton seems to be based on "he didn't do what we wanted and we didn't like it." Appears to be a politically driven witch hunt.
Did you truthfully watch the hearings? Aggie code of honor? Because that's not near the impression I have from watching them.
TRADUCTOR said:
Find the link on how Nate Paul pissed off a Bush... Paxton got caught in the grinder the Bushes or some other pissed power player grinding up Nate.
Pookers said:You don't agree with my take so you're violating the aggie code of honor. Classic.sanangelo said:Sgt. Schultz said:
Wow, I suspected something was up involving the establishment Bush wing of the republican party and the Paxton but it seems my instincts could be correct. Watching the impeachment thing for the past week, the case against Paxton seems to be based on "he didn't do what we wanted and we didn't like it." Appears to be a politically driven witch hunt.
Did you truthfully watch the hearings? Aggie code of honor? Because that's not near the impression I have from watching them.
Sid Farkas said:
sorry, I'm not keeping up with this story, and no longer living in Tx.
This prosecution sounded fishy from the start...apparently now it involves the Swamp (i.e. the Bushes), and the FBI.
Was/Is Paxton in the planning stages of adopting the Left's playbook of malicious prosecution against Dems? i.e. the same way state and local attorneys are fabricating charges against Trump and his supporters with the purpose of ruining them?
I'm going to assume 'yes', and his prosecution is an attempt to stop him before he gets started.
I'll know I'm right if a reslib or CM comes here and calls me a conspiracy theorist.
You have the wrong side pegged as the Left. The Speaker and his cabal are using the FBI and impeachment for political shenanigans.Quote:
Was/Is Paxton in the planning stages of adopting the Left's playbook of malicious prosecution against Dems? i.e. the same way state and local attorneys are fabricating charges against Trump and his supporters with the purpose of ruining them?
