Two US citizens indicted for fraud partied with Paxton. They made huge donations.
The Paxton Corruption Parade Continues
The Wall Street Journal reports Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
As President Trump weighed endorsing Ken Paxton over incumbent Texas Sen. John Cornyn this spring, he was told that damaging revelations were likely to surface about Paxton, according to people familiar with the conversations. Trump was dismissive and said there would be more negative material about Democratic nominee James Talarico.
Trump plowed ahead and endorsed the scandal-plagued Texas attorney general, helping him win the Republican-primary runoff in May. Months later, that decision is looking like Trump’s biggest gamble of the midterms.
As fireworks exploded over the Burj Khalifa skyscraper to welcome 2025, Paxton and his [non-wife] girlfriend Tracy Duhon watched from a luxury high-rise balcony full of people, according to a video of the gathering reviewed by The Wall Street Journal, details of which were contained in court filings and confirmed by people familiar with the matter.
Among those at the event with Texas’ top law-enforcement official were two Americans who had been indicted months before on federal healthcare-fraud charges but failed to return to the U.S., Anosh Ahmed and Sameer Suhail, according to the court records and people familiar with the matter. Ahmed, a healthcare executive, had donated $190,000 to Paxton, campaign finance records show, including $25,000 days after he was indicted.
The three-term attorney general was re-elected twice while securities-fraud charges against him were pending. In 2020, eight of his deputies reported him to law enforcement, accusing him of using the attorney general’s office to help a top donor and spurring a Federal Bureau of Investigation probe. The accusations led members of his own party to impeach Paxton in 2023 on abuse-of-office charges, which he denied. He was acquitted by the state Senate and returned to office.
Last year, his wife of 38 years filed for divorce, citing adultery, after public reports of two affairs, including with Duhon.
The two fugitives at the Dubai event had been both indicted in federal court in Illinois in 2024 on charges that they embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital where Ahmed was CFO. A businessman with interests in Texas, Ahmed was later charged in a much larger scheme involving at least $195 million in alleged payments from the government for fraudulent Covid-19 tests, to which he has pleaded not guilty.
The video of the event, taken by another guest at the party, was cited in a filing in a Texas civil court case in which that guest is a defendant.
“It’s just amazing to me that he’s never been held accountable,” said Kent Schaffer, a special prosecutor who filed charges against Paxton in 2015.
Paxton met Duhon, a Christian influencer who became his girlfriend, at the Kentucky Derby in 2024, people with knowledge of the relationship said. She divorced her husband the following year, and Paxton’s divorce is pending. Tabloid photos captured the pair as they traveled through Europe over this past summer, while Talarico’s campaign ramped up.
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Key Questions
- Will Husted’s ass save the day?
- How much corruption can Texas voters stand?
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Early voting has started. Most minds are made up. It’s too late for major change.
Paxton is probably a lower life individual than taco but on a smaller scale. Neither one has any redeeming values or qualities.
Trumpstien won much bigger in the Vagina Lottery, I don’t think you can compare their current success.
Birds of a feather stink together
Oil is making another run… WTI is over $94 as I peck at the keys…
Trump is the laughingstock of the civilized world and his Rapeublican enablers are going to pay for their association with him,
EPSTEIN!
Haven’t seen jojo, Stu, Arthur or businessperson in a tick. You guys ok, or did you go up in smoke with those Yandex data centers?
do you actually give a fuck? about random posters using fake names. i frequented a funny prediction market for politics. predict it. some of the characters were known to have many different personalities and names. i think many were playwrights or theatre majors just playing for kicks. how many different handles do YOU have on the intertubes. i use a different name when i frequent a sight for fans of right wing first gentlemen from SD who like to dress like women with huge teats. for instance.
You frequent what now?
https://www.predictit.org/markets/detail/8153/Who-will-win-the-2028-Democratic-presidential-nomination#comment-6945209176
Because anyone who disagrees with you could only be a bot.
Well, where are they then?
deported and in a black ops offshore torture chamber like abu ghraib?
Most have been gone for some time. JoJo in particular has long been conspicuous by his absence.
For that matter, even when they were posting here, they just showed up, said stupid things, and didn’t stick around.
The only reason anyone could have for not posting here is that they are a Russian bot that is since offline. I guess, if an argument from ignorance satisfies you.
I have it on good authority that Jojo was killed by a Mullahneese missile while performing heroic special operations missions off the coast of Eswatini. Businesswoman was torn apart by a roving gang of trans kids on xir recent trip to the airport. Very sad stuff.
Zelensky hit the Yandex bot farm and disabled the bots.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/russia-s-yandex-bot-traffic-plunges-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-russia-google-data-centers/ar-AA2e0IjN
I saw a video of a Russian woman crying that all her 40+ years of data was wiped out in the attack. Multiply that by millions and that’s the damage.
https://eventsinukraine.substack.com/p/chutzpah-or-taco
If I’m the Arthur you have in mind, I’ve been busy. Also I don’t know anything about this Paxton, not being an American, so I am not commenting. I know Trump is rough and ready, but I hope there are limits to the sort of fellow he associates with. Thanks for thinking of me.
If “rough and ready” is not an expression you use in America, it means that the person you are describing is not too fastidious about the fine points of ethics.
Off-topic, but related: Guilfoyle’s problem was, she was a rogue grifter. She was going outside the family/organization’s approved channels. I assume she has signed the family’s most ironclad nondisclosure agreement (which former daddy in law Trump pioneered to its present day proportions), but sometimes folks have slithered out of these and produced tell-all books. Then again, I assume she wants to keep breathing.
you mean mrs. gavin newsom? she was first lady of the great city of SF. no doubt the bay area is the best little city in amerika for beauty and business. those crazy tech fucks…….
Maybe Kimberly Guilfoyle is the Odysseus of our times, the Patient Zero of our poly-faceted madnesses. Or the medusa. i might read the memoir. But for now, in this incarnation, she stated, “… While my time as Ambassador may be coming to an end, my commitment to President Trump, the America First movement, and the country I love will never end. …”
Furious Trump delivers brutal final dig at Kimberly Guilfoyle after dramatic resignation as Greek ambassador: ‘I guess she dated my son’
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-16206273/Furious-Trump-delivers-brutal-final-dig-Kimberly-Guilfoyle-dramatic-resignation-Greek-ambassador-guess-dated-son.html
classic drama in the nihilist crumbling evil empire of grifters and warmongers………..like other crumbling empires before us. democracy works. our peoples vote for all the policies and people.
At some point, she fell out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down… and she’s not blonde. They were probably holding out on her so she had to get some side grift going to keep the cocaine lifestyle.
Under the bus she goes… Bumpity bump.
I for one am sick of all the edgelords here that love to spout that voting doesn’t matter, all politicians are the same, every American is a vile dumb sociopath.
You’re like a surly teenager who just looks up from their phone to say “this sucks” then feels smug
I dunno, the evidence seems convincing.
red and blue uniparty is the same. vote libertarian or green for some difference. on your life you could NOT tell difference between reds and blues past 60 years in a blind test. nobody could.
Always, the R= D take is insane.
Sure, on some issues you disagree with both. Maybe it’s because they are both taking money from similar folk. Maybe it’s because you have a fringe position.
But ask the people who were bussed to public school 50 years ago, Gay people who got marriage equality 20 years ago, or one of the millions of women who lost reproductive health rights just a couple years ago.
Betcha they could tell the difference!
blue team in south anti bussing. libertarians were for gay marriage and end of war on drugs decades ago. the blues and reds are indistinguishable on most major issues. the parties change sides. dems in south before LBJ………the reds and blues all warmongers for world wide domination. genocide joe or donald epstein.
You ask for proof of them being the same and get the same mealy mouthed non-response every time. It’s hilarious. Take Yippee for example, who can’t tell you a damn thing they have in common other than that they’re indistinguishable on “most major issues”. What major issues? Immigration? No. The economy? I didn’t see any democrats ruining the nation with tarriffs but I guess we can double check. Maybe it was social issues, I’m sure plenty of democrats have called entire races animals recently. Nope, all the same!
so genocide joe riding shotgun over genocide and famine in GAZA is different from trump? in what way ? obama firebombing libya for no reason and flipping over their leader by literally scalping him and parading him around on back of truck with a rod up his anus is different from trump’s evil killing of school girls. viet nam was a bipartisan war. as was iraqand afghanistan……….
So this is to say you don’t like either’s foreign policy. That’s fine, you don’t have to. But you’re a genuine retard if you think you not liking either’s FP calls makes them the same.
Also, can you show me where Obama ‘literally scalped’ him? Did he fly over for that? Greenlight it? Just wondering here.
Of course he greenlit it. Or rubber stamped it.
“We came, we saw, he died.”. Remember that? They gloated about it.
Killary non-jokingly asked about taking out Assange.
Do you not understand Warshington is home to a mafia, complete with all the hits and skimming from every till?
> That’s fine, you don’t have to. But you’re a genuine retard if you think you not liking either’s FP calls makes them the same.
The business of Warshington is war. Everything they do revolves around it. The wedge issues (trans, etc) distract from it. If ending the offensive war machine isnt your top priority, if ending mass murder in your name isnt your top priority, then yippee is right about you.
The difference between success for regular Chinese and failure for regular Amerikans is the money Warshington spends on war instead of everything else.
Who’s retarded? Pfthfth.
They’re pushing the Russian narrative whether they’re part of it or not.
Because the only way anyone could disagree is because they are pushing the “Russian narrative.”
If a Russian points out that 2+2 =4, is that now a “Russian narrative”? Should he keep his observation to himself, lest an unsuspecting American overhear and be led astray?
It’s precisely the same logic that Nazis used to dismiss their critics as supporting Jews.
Do you believe we are free of deliberate propaganda on this forum?
Nobody of influence and authority cares what a handful of cranks think.
You sound paranoid.
You’re naive and poorly informed.
It’s become just like watching professional wrestling.
Only not as “realistic”.
Off topic but definitely related. Ilhan Ohmar’s DC home raided by feds, potential immigration issues. Search warrant signed by DC judge gives it more credibility than had it been signed in a red jurisdiction. Funny how MSBS was not notified ahead of the raid as they were for Trump and Roger Stone and no mention of overwhelming force being present.
I think this and the more hardcore ICE actions lately are deliberately designed to get the MAGA base to show up at the polls
bingo. winner
Makes sense trump has ( more coming) for talarico. My observation is when the republican politician is in legal trouble. The republican machine must find a dem to drag through the mud. Guess so conservative media has a distraction.
I would say when dem/ system prosecutes a republican. It results in conviction about 90 percent of the time. When the republican/ system prosecutes a dem it results in a conviction about 10 percent of the time. So either the dems are that smart the republicans are that dumb. Or the republicans are just trying to drag a dem through the mud as a distraction from their crimes.
I usually watch seventh page news so to speak. The truth usually comes out a month or to later. By that time the masses are focused on some other news.
We would do a lot better as a nation if everyone held their politicians to the same standards they expect the opposition to follow.
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The Family Values party… well, at least they didn’t rape any children… that we know of…
And he still might win.
Everybody here knows where their corruption bread will be buttered:
Elon Musk’s megaphone propels conspiracy theory about James Talarico
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/10/13/fringe-theory-about-james-talarico-went-viral-then-elon-musk-weighed/
Just an innocent hotdog barbecue and pizza party in Dubai.
I think that’s an oxymoron.
One ass admiring another: Would that be Trump & Husted? Or Paxton & Trump?
These days it would seem to define the Republican Party in general…
with shitheads jockeying for position…
fearing they will miss out on the blatant corruption…
that Trump has rebranded as the Golden Age.
Perhaps we should thank Trump for bringing our attention to this matter.
They could catch these snakes screwing little Girls on Video and they will not proclaim it is A.I. !!
It’s fake, the girls are paid and besides, everybody does it!
off topic but your readers might enjoy this. snapped it from another financial blog. ““A lot of investors have no clue what they are investing in,” Broadcom’s Hock Tan said. They “set very extreme expectations only to find out that it’s almost like they are in a casino.”
In terms of OpenAI, he said that its annualized $50 billion in revenues at the end of September doesn’t show that it has a sustainable, profitable business model as its huge expenses related to the costs of AI and the capital expenditures of the AI buildout are producing big losses.
“So frankly, it doesn’t tell anything at this point except that there is a lot of potential revenue growth out of providing frontier generative AI models,” he said.
And he said that AI model developers, such as OpenAI, need to find customers that can generate returns from putting AI to work, rather than relying on users who are now “wasting money” on tokens as they experiment with AI, according to Bloomberg reporting on the panel discussion. He said:
“When you are a kid you go to a video arcade, you play. Your parents give you $10 of tokens, you finish it in 10 minutes and you haven’t learned anything. That’s what’s happening in enterprises today.”
In terms of the AI infrastructure buildout boom, Hock Tan said: “My presumption is this might continue. This would probably continue till 2029 and probably into 2030. But that depends to a large extent on things we are learning as we go along in this process.”
Over the past two years, the AI industry has struggled with “a series of bottlenecks, that keep coming out, but then we overcome it,” Hock Tan said. “Memory shortage today might not be that way a year from now” as production capacity expands. Wafer shortages could ease by 2028 or 2029, and power availability might improve as new infrastructure comes online, he said, according to CNBC, reporting on the same panel discussion.
Paul Tudor Jones was being interviewed by CNBC this morning. Great interview, Jones says we are in 1999 dot com but with AI. he is shorting the market in 2027 and I was already looking at put options myself for same time frame. He expects treasury yields to continue climbing until something breaks. good for my bond ladder.
And Michael Burry has long been skeptical of the valuations and he too is shorting again.
yup. steve eisman interview said the same, basically. big short dude too. smells like the other bubbles i rode up and got stopped out. .com bubble was wonderful. same with housing/mtge bubble and bust. sold Bear stearns at 110 at a conference of theirs i attended in summer of 2007. smells the same here. sold lehman too back in 1998 and again in 2008
If yields are going up the value of your bond ladder will go down all things being equal.
Enough with the derailing spam
What’s insane is that betting markets still give Paxton a 37 percent chance of winning the race. The hypocrisy of MAGA voters is beyond human understanding.
I don’t think their brains are rising to the effort level of hypocrisy. ‘The trannie-loving communists will open the borders and tax us, and Talarico is a wimp’ altogether is more than enough brain-effort for a Paxton vote.
Dem waffling about border issues and other current feeds this. The Dems need to resolve a clear platform that addresses middle America and goes head to head with the PR coming on blast from the other side.
Eh, nothing like letting the opposition dictating what the focus is…
Like, everyone in this blog, left right and center can agree that it’s the economy stupid?
This is an example of having to choose the least bad candidate. Glad I moved from Texas.
Once he completely corrupts corporate and environmental law in Texas, maybe Musk will build a big enough penile rccket to completely scorch the ecosystems here while lifting a self-aggrandizing robot to Saturn.
democracy works perfectly. he represents the people of TX to a T. i love the stolen pen incident best. would i allow 95% of amerikans to watch my dog and cat while i was away. fuck no. amerikans are grifters, sportsball freaks, entertainment junkies, and idolize grifting trillionaires. and our youth seems to beg to take fentanyl to kill themselves. long live pax dumbfuckistan. democracy works.
Yippee, you are drawing a wide swath saying that here, which may well be dominated by Americans (Viewers, readers).
Not many Americans are terrible Sinners but many Americans FALL for the idea that VOTING MATTERS.
The Usonians here are the exception that confirms the norm.
not a religious fella. but if voting for nonstop warfare to kill innocent kids around the world for the past many decades since 1898 is not evil, then words have no meanings. democracy works. see ancient greeks for explanations.
Yeah. “Voting matters” is repeated all the time as if it’s the most responsible, democratic, patriotic thing to say.
But it’s actually a question, and the empirical evidence is that it doesn’t.
Which raises the question what purpose these pious voting sentiments serve?
Wtf do you mean “empirically” voting doesn’t matter? You’re using that term wrong.
Like the votes dictate who is elected? Or are we gonna just live in the despair universe where the shadowy powers that be play our lives like a puppet and we spend all day bitching on an economic blog?
If the choice is rigged, with the whole primaries and districts being gerrymandered, voting does not matter and the empirical result is legion.
Predatory corruption is the brand. Paxton will win.
While Talarico was partying in an insane asylum for two weeks.
That was a lie spread by Paxton, as is obvious to anyone that has paid attention to this “story”. It is remarkable that there still are people that prefer someone who protects pedophile friends, is proven to be corrupt, and has spent a ton of time vacationing while he should be on the job, and does that vacationing in the company of criminals while he is DA. And that they prefer that person over an opponent that does the job, does not protect pedophiles, is not proven to take bribes (or steal expensive pens). Just because the decent person is on the other party.
One can only wonder what type of person would have a preference for a corrupt protector of child molestors.
Talk about grasping at straws. I am not a fan of Talarico either, but must note that he was recovering from the flu.
Yeah, yeah, I know – that has never happened to the MAGA morons.
MAGA can’t understand and therefore don’t believe in germ theory
Requires belief in science, so it’s a non-starter.
What a rube.
“ How much corruption can Texas voters stand.”
30+ years and counting, enough for smart people to pull a “Mish” and leave the state and country.
How soon before we get a “it takes 4 weeks to rent a uhaul to leave Texas” post.
With all the datacenters going up, utilities rates are going to explode soon enough. Throw in highest property taxes in the country, corruption, clowns and other issues and its a no-brainer.
“It takes 4 weeks to get a uhaul.”
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“It takes 4 months to get a residency visa.”
Leave the country? For…what? A place with no corruption? 🙃🙃🙃🙃
Corruption is everywhere.
Most people aren’t Doug Casey or Simon Black and aren’t going to leave their home country where they’ve established roots. Sure, we don’t have a Singapore level of corruption in the USA, but this alsoisn’t Gaza, and it isn’t Ukraine. It could be much worse.
And Texas has the highest property taxes in the nation? Are you sure about that? Is it worse than the shitty state of IL? Even if, when you combine local income tax and property tax, is TX really that bad?
As negative as your post is, I want to ask, “Can you show me on the doll where Texas touched you?”
My comment was about the future direction of texas not what it is now but I dont expect you to understand, you seem to lack thinking skills which is why you voted for trump and now reaping what you sowed.
And if you love your corrupt state and country, you can keep it, no one is forcing you do to anything. People come here to express opinions, you should do some self reflection and try to figure out why you are so triggered.
No, no, I do not want to mess with Texas because ………………….. it is already a mess!
The main problem with Texas is it’s full of Texans.
Well…the corruption in Ukraine is inseparable from the corruption in USA.
Warshington picked the coup regime and literally “calls the shots”. When Oceania regime press complains about money being looted there, they pretend the trail goes cold. But i presume a large part indirectly returns to Warshington or for use by Warshington in ways well…you know.
Yes. Europe & US wanted to democratize Ukraine.
Instead they get Urkainized.
By “democratize” I assume thet you meant “use”.
And by the way, I wasn’t the only Texan to want to leave. Been following these guys for a while now, they can’t seem to sell their house so they are stuck in Texas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEw2CjtfDkE
Texas does not have the highest property taxes in the nation, but it does have high property taxes. Texas has one of most regressive tax systems in the United States. Want to have a blast? Try explaining to the average to somewhat above average Texan that they pay more state and local taxes than people in 44 other states. For most Texas residents, Texas is Taxachusetts.
I thought there was no state income tax in Texas?
there isn’t but there is property taxes and sales tax and endless fees tacked on to utility bills.