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The attorneys general of the Republic of Texas and the first four attorneys general under the 1845 state constitution were appointed by the governor. The office was made elective in 1850 by constitutional amendment. The attorney general is elected to a four-year term. In 2013, former Attorney General Greg Abbott announced he would not seek ...
In 2014, Mazzant was recommended to the Obama Administration as a judicial nominee by U.S. Senator Ted Cruz. [4] On June 26, 2014, President Barack Obama nominated Mazzant to serve as a United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, to the seat vacated by Judge T. John Ward, who retired on October 1, 2011. [5]
Numerous political aspirants and officeholders in Texas have faced fines levied by the Texas Ethics Commission (TEC). [9] The heftiest of these was a $77,200 fine levied against Ron Reynolds, then a member of the Texas Legislature, for failing to file mandatory campaign finance reports during a two year period. [10]
The securities fraud charges are among several other legal troubles Paxton has tried but failed to shake off, as former Texas Attorney General and current U.S. Sen. John Cornyn highlighted during ...
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is due in a Harris County state District Court on Tuesday morning for a pretrial hearing before his scheduled April 15 trial on three felony securities fraud ...
Elected as the state's top law enforcement officer in 2014, Paxton was subsequently indicted on three felony securities fraud charges.
SBIs can also exist either independently or within a state Department of Public Safety/Department of Justice (which is an umbrella agency coordinating and/or controlling the various state-level law enforcement agencies) or a state police force (which is a general law enforcement agency).
The Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009, or FERA, Pub. L. 111–21 (text), S. 386, 123 Stat. 1617, enacted May 20, 2009, is a public law in the United States enacted in 2009. The law enhanced criminal enforcement of federal fraud laws, especially regarding financial institutions, mortgage fraud, and securities fraud or commodities fraud.