Ken Paxton’s top aide was unfit to serve Texas as attorney general | Opinion
That dysfunction sometimes spills into public view, as it did last year when the attorney general’s office dropped a series of human trafficking and child sexual assault cases after losing track of a victim.
Most troubling is Webster’s alleged involvement in Paxton’s attacks on senior leaders in his agency who accused Paxton of taking bribes from a political donor and corrupting his office. Eight top aides, also conservative attorneys, made reports to law enforcement. Four of those whistleblowers sued after Paxton fired them, and their 129-page complaint is damning, not just to Paxton but to Webster.
Add to this the defections of other prosecutors who told The Associated Press they left because of pressure to behave unethically or because of a hostile environment, and it’s no surprise that Abbott would look elsewhere for a leader to run an office that enforces child support laws, represents other state agencies in court and prosecutes human trafficking and other serious crimes.
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