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Ken Paxton's Travel Security Cost Taxpayers Millions
Original: Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
An investigation by ProPublica found Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, with security costs totaling $3.3 million paid by taxpayers. Reporters could tie only 138 of those trips, about one in six, and $553,000 in security spending to stated state business, raising questions about how the rest of the travel was justified and whether public funds were properly used.
Why now: The report raises fresh accountability questions about a prominent, controversial state official's use of taxpayer money.
Ken PaxtonProPublicaTexasTexas Attorney General's Office
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- Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose. · ProPublica
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business.
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