I'm shocked, shocked I say, that a corrupt AF cheating dog is corrupt AF.
Ken Paxton Claimed Three Houses as His Primary Residence, Records Show – The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/24/u…— Jan COFFEE IS LIFE! Dembowski (@jdembowski.bsky.social) July 25, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I said, when the news of the Paxton divorce broke, it would be rooted in financial corruption, not ‘biblical adultery’. Don’t know how the applicable laws work in Texas, but I do know that large financial institutions take a very negative attitude towards this kind of white-collar crime. Maybe Angela Paxton wanted to protect her share of the marital assets (and her pension from the state legislature) by making it clear she only dutifully initialed those dishonest mortgage papers…
Per the NYTimes, “Ken Paxton Claimed Three Houses as His Primary Residence, Records Show” [gift link]:
Attorney General Ken Paxton of Texas and his now-estranged wife, Angela, declared three separate Texas homes as their primary residence in mortgage documents, according to records obtained by The New York Times.
The possible misrepresentation could have allowed the couple to secure more favorable loan terms and save hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The issue, first reported by The Associated Press, emerged on Thursday, two weeks after his wife, a state senator, filed for divorce, accusing him of adultery, and a little more than three months after Mr. Paxton announced that he would challenge Senator John Cornyn in what could be the Republican primary season’s toughest, most expensive race in 2026…
The Paxtons reside in a home worth more than $1 million in McKinney, a suburb of Dallas, according to their voter registration records. That house is in the State Senate district that Ms. Paxton represents and the one Mr. Paxton represented as a state senator before he was elected attorney general in 2014.
The couple also holds mortgages on two houses in Austin, each of which they also called their primary address. Those houses appear to be rental properties, based on online listings. Mr. Paxton has disclosed rental income from two Austin sources on his financial disclosure documents.
Properties that generate rental income are considered investment properties and can be more difficult to finance than owner-occupied homes because they are considered riskier investments.
It is a federal and state crime to knowingly make false statements on mortgage documents. Mortgage fraud cases are usually settled out of court through bank fees and other penalties because they are typically difficult to prove, legal experts said…
Mr. Paxton has held onto power over three terms as attorney general despite numerous legal challenges over the past decade. In 2015, he was indicted on accusations that he had misled investors into putting money into a technology company without disclosing that he was making a commission on their investments. Mr. Paxton was charged with securities fraud, a felony, and ultimately reached a $300,000 settlement deal to avoid a criminal trial.
In 2023, he was impeached by the Republican-controlled State House over accusations of corruption and abuse of power made by former top aides. He was acquitted in the Republican-led Senate.
Mr. Cornyn has called the looming primary fight “a test of whether character still matters,” and in a statement on Thursday, the senator’s campaign team called Mr. Paxton’s real estate maneuverings “deeply unethical.”…
Records indicate that the Paxtons have also collected tax breaks on two of their Texas homes. The couple has claimed a homestead exemption on their McKinney home since they purchased it, according to Collin County public records, reducing the amount of their home’s value that was subject to property taxes.
In 2018, they simultaneously received similar exemptions on one of their Austin properties, according to Travis County tax records. Under Texas law, homeowners seeking a homestead exemption must complete a form certifying that the property is their primary residence. Travis County officials told The Associated Press that the benefits of the homestead exemption had transferred to the Paxtons from a previous owner.
Mr. Paxton may have also violated mortgage terms by renting out at least two properties that were purchased as vacation homes. In 2022, Mr. Paxton bought a $1.6 million house in Broken Bow, Okla., with a $1.28 million mortgage. Mr. Paxton indicated in the mortgage document, which was not signed by his wife, that the property would be used as a second home, not as a time share or rental property. The property has been listed for rent on the vacation rental site Vrbo, the Dallas Observer reported.
The Paxtons also claimed that a fourth house they purchased in College Station, Texas, in 2016 would be used as a secondary home, not as a rental property. But the house, worth about $360,000, has been listed for rent seven times on Zillow since 2015…
It’s just possible, per the Dallas Chronicle, that the Christianist base has gotten tired of turning a blind eye to Paxton’s ‘weaknesses’ — “Conservative power group drops support of Ken Paxton amid divorce news”:
Texas Values, an influential group that operates to advance family and Judeo-Christian values in the state, dropped its support of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s bid for U.S. Senate days after news broke that state Senator Angela Paxton filed for divorce…
Texas Values is not the only group to have since rebuked the attorney general, who is running for U.S. Senate against longtime incumbent U.S. Senator John Cornyn. The National Republican Senatorial Committee did not mince words when coming out against Paxton’s alleged actions in his marriage…
A spokesperson for Texans for a Conservative Majority, a super PAC known to be pro-Cornyn, referred to news of the divorce as the “latest saga that represents a tectonic shift in the race.” The super PAC began running TV ads that refer to Cornyn as a “man who votes with President Trump over 99 percent of the time,” challenging the common criticism that in the past, the Texas senator has not been on the president’s side as frequently as Paxton.
Cornyn’s campaign initially remained silent on the matter; however, it released a digital ad late last week that addressed the divorce filing and alleged that Paxton was “at it again” after “embarrassing his family once.” Cornyn also recently referred to Paxton as an “onion” of corruption, saying every time “you peel back one layer of corruption, there’s something underneath.”…
The primary race for Cornyn’s seat was already a closely watched contest, with Paxton and Cornyn taking swipes at one another as the attorney general attempts to move into national leadership and the longtime senator tries to cling to political relevance…
It’s not as though it’s news in Texas that Paxton has, shall we say, a highly self-serving attitude towards other peoples’ money (as well as their significant others):
$3,780 an hour.
That's the hourly fee for a lawyer handling a lawsuit on behalf of Texas attorney general's office.
Texas AG Ken Paxton Is Increasingly Relying on Costly Private Lawyers, by @zachdespart.bsky.social @texastribune.org— Charles Ornstein (@charlesornstein.bsky.social) July 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
… When a Texas attorney general previously made a practice of giving lucrative contracts to private counsel, it didn’t end well.
Dan Morales was the last Democrat to hold the office. He became embroiled in scandal after he used outside firms to help secure a $17 billion settlement in Big Tobacco litigation in 1998.
Republicans, including then-Gov. George W. Bush, blasted the $3.2 billion payout to the outside lawyers as exorbitant. Their attacks grew more intense when Morales sought to steer $500 million of that sum to a lawyer, a personal friend, who did very little work on the case. Morales pleaded guilty in 2003 to related federal corruption charges. He served 3 1/2 years behind bars.
John Cornyn, the Republican who succeeded Morales in 1999, criticized his predecessor’s handling of the tobacco case during his campaign for the office. In an interview for this story, Cornyn said he never hired outside counsel as attorney general because he focused on recruiting talented in-house lawyers that he felt could handle all the office’s cases.
Paxton is challenging Cornyn, now a four-term U.S. senator, in next year’s Republican primary…
Much more inflammatory detail at the link!
dmsilev
Mr. Cornyn’s campaign added that the Senator’s support for Donald Trump remains unwavering and strong.
Josie
I find this ironic because, as I understand it, this mortgage stuff is what the Republicans are accusing Leticia James and Adam Schiff of. They can’t say it isn’t important if they are using it against the two Democrats.
MattF
So… Paxton has five primary residences? Hmm.
bjacques
Character does matter, because Paxton is a real character
Melancholy Jaques
@Josie:
LOL
dmsilev
@MattF: Five is a prime number; what’s the problem?
Danielx
I am shocked, shocked…
bbleh
Oh please! I mean, honestly, just what do people expect of a guy who’s Attorney General of Texas? Some kinda beta-cuck “integrity” or “transparency”? Following the so-called “rules”? I mean, what are these “rules” anyway? Something by some bunch of unelected bureaucrats from some ee-leetist university or something? Boy even someone asking dumb questions like this makes me SO ANGRY …
trollhattan
“What part of ‘I primarily live in houses’ do you not comprehend?”
Mike in Pasadena
Off topic: I have slowly come to the conclusion that all trumpists are pedophiles or enablers. They voted for him even though they knew he bragged about pussy grabbing, revealing his attitude that all women are simply vaginas waiting for him. It’s not much of a leap to realize that a man who wants to screw his pubescent daughter would be gleeful about joining a real pedophile enabler. I’ve never seen a guilty man run from responsibility for his actions so hard since Bill Clinton ran from Monica Lewinsky. Now, MAGA defends trump. Mike Johnson is either a pedo himself, or more charitably, a pedo enabler at a minimum. Probably the former. And the rest of Rethuglicans in Congress are just as eager to defend President Pedo. Rethuglicans on the Supreme Court are also pedo enablers at the very minimum.
Now, to those who think I’ve gone too far in the above paragraph, I remind you that it was Newt Gingrich who first started the rehetorical behavior of calling all Democrats criminals, communists, and worse. Sauce for the gander. . . or reap what you sow, Rethuglicans.
trollhattan
@Mike in Pasadena:
Didn’t triply married Newt ditch his first wife when she had cancer then cheated on #2 with his intern who became #3 and had her entire physiognomy redone at an auto body shop?
Or was that some other Newt?
bbleh
@trollhattan: sorta like Trump cheated on #1 with #2, #2 with #3, and #3 with a porn star?
laura
@Mike in Pasadena: pussy fever is a hell of a drug.
trollhattan
@bbleh:
Get your card punched five times you get a free burrito and Coke.
Cheryl from Maryland
Nope, that Newt. He also arranged for his first two marriages to be “annulled” by the Catholic Church so he could marry wife #3 with the blessing of the Church.
bbleh
@trollhattan: I love how the “values voters” and his “Christian” supporters are … quietly okay with it.
eclare
@Mike in Pasadena:
Nope. I don’t think you’ve gone too far. As people say, no lie told.
Mike in Pasadena
@trollhattan: Same dude
Baud
@Cheryl from Maryland:
And she ended up ambassador to the Vatican, I believe.
trollhattan
@Baud: Oh, to have been in the room the first time Pope Frank had to meet her.
Anne Laurie
@Mike in Pasadena: Reposting from my last, dead thread:
If you read Kitty Kelley’s bio, Nancy’s mother basically sold her to a rich, ‘respectable’ pedophile in return for marriage. (She promptly abandoned her daughter — again — and her new husband, leaving 8-year-old Nancy to act as ‘Daddy’s’ stand-in social partner.)
Reagan’s father was an amiable drunk, and his mother was… probably BPD, certainly a narcissist, and also a neighborhood disgrace.
Reagan’s first wife (Jane Wyman) couldn’t give him what he wanted — she had the gall to be more successful in Hollywood than he was. Aspiring actress / hanger-on Nancy Reagan, on the other hand, had spent her entire life cultivating the wide-eyed adoring stare for which she would become White-House-famous. (And also, of course: literally sucking off older men.)
What Ronnie & Nancy offered each other was the ‘perfect’ folie-a-deux fantasy life… but it didn’t hurt that Nancy’s rich stepdad Dr. Davis, and his California friends, had the means to revive Reagan’s fading acting career by getting him into TV.
And this, I believe, was a tipping point for the GOP: A ‘photogenic’ white guy with a much younger, adoring wife… based on generational pedophilia and other peoples’ money. Trump is the (hopefully) final efflorescence of this particular sick subliminal fantasy.
bbleh
@trollhattan: you know, those people are so shameless, and their “Christianity” — whatever the variety — is so purely form and totally lacking in substance, that she probably did nothing but internally celebrate me-me-me-I-am-meeting-the-Pope-yes-I-am, and any gentle criticism he might have offered just rolled off her like rain off a duck
I’ve had to deal with Southern Poujadistes on and off for all my life, and I don’t like ’em.
hotshoe
repeating from below:
to add: and some Rs are unbelievably worse than other Rs
twbrandt
It will be 0-0 tie in that case.
mrmoshpotato
@laura:
Well, to be fair to him, Newt Gingrich is also a pile of shit.
RaflW
So the TX A.G. sure appears to have committed fraud. And while she will try to worm out of it, a TX senator did too.
I agree with the O.P. that bankers will not look kindly on finding out they got duped into giving favorable first mortgage type loans to people doing speculative rental income property loans! Burn them, bankers!!
Wapiti
This post is of a piece with Anne Laurie’s post this morning about modern vampires. Paxton, like so many of our ‘elites’, is a parasite, stealing from all of us.
Shalimar
🛰️ Musk Warns: “Cancel SpaceX Contracts and Astronauts Could Die in Orbit”
Pretty much the best evidence you could get that NASA needs to find alternatives to SpaceX as soon as possible.
Jay
@Shalimar:
Pretty much the best evidence you could get that NASA
needs to find alternatives to SpaceX as soon as possibleis utterly fucked for at least the next 3 years and 5 months. Maybe forever.mrmoshpotato
@Shalimar: Why would SpaceX contracts be canceled? Is the orange manbaby finally realizing that he’s the South African Nazi’s bitch?
Kayla Rudbek
@Wapiti: I’ve seen commentary (maybe on Tumblr or Facebook?) that vampire movies/books are about fear of the elite/aristocracy and zombie movies/books are about fear of the mob/common people.
And personally I would say that a lot of paranormal romance is the embodiment of the meme “what would you rather meet in the woods, a man or a bear?” That the paranormal monster/ beast/creature is less dangerous than a human man, and less crooked than a human man, to try to pull this back onto point
Jay
bsky.app/profile/stevanzetti.bsky.social/post/3likrru5g2s2t
Jay
@mrmoshpotato:
after Maxwell get’s her pardon for lying about Democrats and omitting everybody else
Felon Husk loses his leverage over the Clown Supreme, and his Space X contracts and Starlink contracts are at risk.
It’s also a push back against the “many people are saying” that Felon Husk, Space X and Starlink are a major National Security Liability, if not already massively compromised.
mappy!
The question might be:
who is living in primary residence #2 and who is living in primary residence #3 and are the various residents, or visitors, if the residences are used for other purposes, the impetus for the divorce and subsequent “exposé” by the FTFNYT? …follow the grift, follow the lede?
Jay
Video at link.
bsky.app/profile/iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social/post/3luvnwvcyxs2a
Jay
@mappy!:
The FTFNYT does journalmentalism, not journalism.
Jay
bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3luvnncicq22s
Jackie
@Jay: Uvalde, again.
Quaker in a Basement
A couple of weeks back, Trump’s DOJ lackeys revealed they were investigating Adam Schiff for his mortgages on two “primary residences.”
Haven’t heard ’em make a peep about Paxton.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Baud: Yes indeedy.
Martin
@Jackie: I worried after Uvalde that the fragile contract implicit in the ‘run, hide, fight’ active shooter strategy was forever broken – that if police do not promptly respond as the contract implies, that the public’s faith that we can count on the police will forever break. My thought at the time was that the active shooter strategy needed to just be ‘fight’ because you couldn’t count on anyone coming to save you any more.
It was kind of the last straw in the ‘protect and serve’ bucket still standing, with all other law enforcement really centering on ‘order’. That is, if there is no protection expectation from the public toward the police because they are completely unreliable, then that is the definition of a police state. Their role is purely oppressive. It is not enough for them to arrest the bad guys only when it is convenient for them to do so, and to ignore calls for help because they don’t feel like it.
I was wondering if this was inevitable given USSC green lighting every citizen owning their own AR-15, extended mag, bump stock. I wouldn’t want to pull over a driver either if they had the constitutional right to have a near-automatic weapon at the ready to protest the speeding charge. If they’re going to wait an hour to respond to a shooting, might as well save ourselves the money on paying them and increase funding for forensics.
Ramona
@Shalimar: Good reason to nationalize SpaceX. It’s high time the odious Trump did something good for the country!
Jay
@Ramona:
If DJTdiot “nationalizes” SpaceX and Starlink, it will just be a different Nazi in charge and “service” as bad as it is, will just go in the shitter. Starship engineering will be put in charge of Flat Earthers, Roswellians and “Moon landings were a hoax!” morons.
Ramona
@bbleh: I think I got this from a BJ commenter liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-talk-about-pedocon-theory/
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Ramona: That article way over thought that. Trump explains it right here
These people are into pedophilia because it means they break the law and get away with.
prostratedragon
Jackie
@prostratedragon: Why are so many sexual predators republicans?
Because their Dear Leader sets the example.
Regnad Kcin
@Jackie: don’t mistake a symptom for the root cause…
columbusqueen
@Mike in Pasadena: What makes you think Donny didn’t screw a newly pubescent Ivanka? I’m quite sure he did.
AxelFoley
@laura:
Water Girl, may I nominate this? LOL
Barry
@RaflW: “I agree with the O.P. that bankers will not look kindly on finding out they got duped into giving favorable first mortgage type loans to people doing speculative rental income property loans! Burn them, bankers!!”
I agree that the bankers won’t like it, but they might have to swallow it.
Kathleen
@Anne Laurie: I know this thread is more dead than Stephen Miller’s eyes but I read a heart breaking account of Sandra Dee’s life and she had a familiar situation. Her step father had her and her mother. Stories like this make me wonder if this is really the base of our world’s culture (and not just in the US).
ETA I recommend documentary series Happy Shiny People on Amazon, though it’s depressing and graphic I think we need to see and hear stories of people who endured this in their churches, homes and schools.