![]() ![]() Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having an extramarital affair, has denied bribing Paxton. The report described Sagiraju as Paul’s “friend.” Last year a court-appointed overseer for some of Paul’s companies wrote in a report that Cupertino Builders was used for “fraudulent transfers” from his business to Narsimha Raju Sagiraju, who was convicted of fraud in California in 2016. A company of the same name was formed in Delaware in April of that year, although public filings there do not make clear who is behind it. ![]() The company did not incorporate as a business in Texas until more than three weeks after the transaction took place. The $121,000 payment was to Cupertino Builders, whose manager was an associate of Paul, state corporation and court records show. 1, 2020 - the same day Paxton’s deputies signed a letter informing the head of human resources at the Texas attorney general’s office that they had reported Paxton to the FBI. The FBI declined to comment, and a spokesman for federal prosecutors in West Texas did not respond to inquiries.įight Still Ahead for Texas' Ken Paxton After Historic Impeachment Deepens GOP Divisions One of Paxton's defense attorneys, Dan Cogdell, said he had no additional information on the arrest. Lawyers for Paul did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Paul's arrest followed a yearslong federal investigation into the Austin real estate developer - a probe that Paxton involved his office in, setting off a chain of events that ultimately led to his impeachment last month. It was not immediately clear what charges led to his arrest, but the records showed he was being held on a federal detainer for a felony. Nate Paul, 36, was taken into custody by federal agents and booked into an Austin jail in the afternoon, according to Travis County Sheriff’s Office records. The FBI on Thursday arrested a businessman at the center of the scandal that led to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's historic impeachment, a move that came amid new questions about the men’s dealings raised by financial records the Republican's lawyers made public to try to clear him of bribery allegations. ![]()
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