Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues BlackRock, State Street, and Vanguard for Illegally Conspiring to Manipulate Energy Markets, Driving Up Costs for Consumers
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued BlackRock, State Street Corporation, and Vanguard Group, three of the largest institutional investors in the world, for conspiring to artificially constrict the market for coal through anticompetitive trade practices.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Austin Taxpayer-Funded “Homeless Navigation Center” for Facilitating Public Drug Use and Violent Incidents Next to Elementary School
Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Austin-based Sunrise Homeless Navigation Center for operating as a common nuisance in violation of Texas law. Activities permitted by the center are drastically harming quality of life in the area and endangering neighborhood residents, local businesses, and the students of a nearby elementary school.
At SCOTUS, Attorney General Ken Paxton Defends Texas Law Requiring Age Verification Measures for Pornography Sites; Dozens of States, Lawmakers, and Experts File Briefs In Support
Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (“SCOTUS”), asking it to uphold House Bill 1181, a Texas law requiring pornography companies to institute reasonable age-verification measures to safeguard children from obscene online material. Texas will argue the case before SCOTUS on January 15, 2025.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Sues Biden-Harris Administration for Unlawful Regulations Against Cryptocurrency Markets
Attorney General Ken Paxton, as part of an 18-state coalition, sued the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) and members of the Biden-Harris Administration for unlawfully promulgating sweeping new regulations on cryptocurrencies without any legal authority.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Investigation Results in 10-Year Prison Sentence and Over $34 Million Restitution for North Texas Doctor
Daniel Ramiro Canchola, 54, of Flower Mound, Texas, was sentenced to 10 years and one month in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $34 million in restitution for his role in a $54 million health care fraud scheme.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Obtains 55-Year Sentence for Child Sex Offender in Nueces County
A jury in the 117th District Court of Nueces County, Texas, sentenced Lowell Williams to 40 years in the Institutional Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Young Child and to 15 years for Sexual Assault of a Child, to be served consecutively.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Plays Key Role in Largest Ever Criminal Enforcement Action Targeting Opioid Distributors
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit played a pivotal role in an investigation leading to the successful federal prosecution of nine pharmaceutical distributor executives, sales representatives, and brokers involved in the unlawful distribution of nearly 70 million opioid pills and over 30 million doses of commonly abused prescription drugs.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Criminal Justice Division Secures Life Sentence for Capital Murder in Midland
A Midland County jury found Clinton Lee Young III guilty of capital murder for shooting Samuel Petrey in the head twice, in November 2001, at an oil lease site after carjacking him at gunpoint in Eastland, Texas.
Attorney General Ken Paxton Secures 30-Year Sentence for Tyler County Man Convicted for Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child
Michael Clint Wallace, Jr. of Warren, Texas, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for the offense of Aggravated Sexual Assault of a Child.
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit Helps Secure Conviction of Houston Pharmacy Owner in $160M Fraud Scheme
Attorney General Ken Paxton’s Medicaid Fraud Control Unit secured justice as Mohamad Mokbel, a 59-year-old Houston man, was convicted on 15 counts of healthcare fraud for a massive pharmaceutical-compounding fraud scheme.