Judge awards $6.6M to whistleblowers who were fired after reporting Texas AG Ken Paxton to FBI

AND Judge of the District Court Awarded $ 6.6 million in combination with four whistles sued by Texas State Attorney Ken Paxton for the request that he had dismissed them in retaliation sign that had been reported by the FBI.

Blake Brickman, David Maxwell, Mark Penley and Ryan Vassar informed Paxton and his office on October 1, 2020, that they were reported to the FBI for allegedly abusing their office. All four shot until mid -November.

The Travis Catherine Mazzy judge on Friday that “overcoming evidence” proven responsibility, compensation and law fees in her appeal against the State Attorney’s Office on Friday.

The verdict says that former assistants have given their reports to the federal implementation of the law “in good faith” and that the Paxton office has not challenged any demands or damage in the lawsuit.

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The judge awarded $ 6.6 million in combination with four whistles sued by Texas State Attorney Ken Paxton for dismissing them for reporting to the FBI. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)

“Since the Office of the Attorney General violated the Texas Law on a whistle by firing and in other ways revenge a prosecutor for good reporting on the violation of the Ken Paxton and OAG law, the court renders the prosecutor’s judgment,” Mauzy wrote in her judgment.

The court found that four former Assistant Attorney General were dismissed in retaliation on the charges that he had used his office to accept the bribe of Austin from Austin’s Real Estate programmer and political donor Nate Paul, who hired a woman with whom Paxton had an extraordinary affair.

Paxton denied the allegations that he accepted the bribe or abused his office to help Paul.

“It should shock all the Texians that their main law clerk, Ken Paxton, admitted that he had violated the law, but this was exactly what happened in this case,” said Tom Nesbitt, a lawyer who represents Brickman, and TJ Turner, a lawyer who represents Maxwell, said in a joint statement.

The court found that four of the former Attorney General’s assistant were dismissed in retaliation for reporting the accusations that he had abused his office. (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Paxton said in a statement that the judge was “ridiculous” and “not based on facts or law.” He said his office plans to appeal the verdict.

The Attorney General examined the federal authorities after eight employees reported their office to the FBI 2020. He agreed to pay a lawsuit for $ 3.3 million, which he would pay for the legislative body, but the state home rejected his request and conducted his own investigation.

Paxton was Sent to the house 2023 before he was later released in Senate.

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Paxton said that the judge was “ridiculous” and that it was “not based on facts or law.” (Reuters)

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In November, the Supreme Court of the State canceled the verdict with lower terrain that would have demanded that Paxton testified in a lawsuit.

AND US Ministry of Justice refused to investigate Paxton in the last weeks of Biden administration, according to Associated Press.

Associated Press contributed to this report.