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dontmeantobepoliticalbut · 11 months

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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.

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. 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.

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.

Lawyers for Paul did not immediately respond to requests for comment. One of Paxton’s defense attorneys, Dan Cogdell, said he had no additional information on the arrest. The FBI declined to comment, and a spokesman for federal prosecutors in West Texas did not respond to inquiries.

FBI agents examining Paul’s troubled real estate empire searched his Austin offices and palatial home in 2019. The next year, eight of Paxton’s top deputies reported the attorney general to the FBI on allegations of bribery and abusing his office to help Paul, including by hiring an outside lawyer to examine the developer’s claims of wrongdoing by federal agents.

The allegations by Paxton’s staff prompted an FBI investigation, which remains ongoing, and are central to articles of impeachment overwhelmingly approved by the GOP-led state House of Representatives.

On Wednesday, Paxton’s defense team showed a packed room of journalists a bank statement that included a 2020 wire transfer purportedly showing him, and not a donor, paying more than $120,000 for a home renovation.

The wire transfer was dated Oct. 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 $121,000 payment was to Cupertino Builders, whose manager was an associate of Paul, state corporation and court records show.

The company did not incorporate as a business in Texas until more than three weeks after the transaction took place. 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.

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. The report described Sagiraju as Paul’s “friend.”

Paul, who also employed a woman with whom Paxton acknowledged having an extramarital affair, has denied bribing Paxton. In a deposition, Paul described Sagiraju as an “independent contractor” and said he didn’t remember how they first met.

The timing of the payment — and the identity of who was paid for renovations at Paxton’s home in Austin — was not publicly known before his new legal team held a news conference Wednesday in which they put financial documents on a projector screen while criticizing the impeachment. They were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.

Tony Buzbee, a prominent Houston attorney who was hired by Paxton over the weekend and led the news conference, said by email Thursday that receipts “clearly demonstrate” Paxton paid for the repairs. He did not address questions about the timing of the payments or Cupertino Builders.

“Without any evidence the politicians leading this sham impeachment falsely accused General Paxton of not paying for the repairs to his home. That is a lie,” Buzbee said.

Since becoming just the third sitting official in Texas history to be impeached, Paxton has attacked the proceedings as politically motivated and rushed, saying he was never given the chance to rebut the accusations in the state House.

“We have the receipts,” Buzbee told reporters Wednesday as the documents flashed onscreen. “This is the type of evidence we tried to offer them once we found out this foolishness was going on.”

Paxton is temporarily suspended from office pending the outcome of a trial in the Texas Senate that is set to begin no later than Aug. 28. The jury will be the members of the 31-seat Senate; one of them, Paxton’s wife, Sen. Angela Paxton, has not said whether she will recuse herself.

The Paxtons purchased the Austin house in 2018. When it was remodeled two years later, Paxton’s former staff alleged in court documents, Paul “was involved in” the work.

Among the 20 articles of impeachment are accusations that Paxton used the power of his office to help Paul over unproven claims of an elaborate conspiracy to steal $200 million of the developer’s properties. The FBI searched Paul’s home in 2019, but he has not been charged and his attorneys have denied wrongdoing.

The city has no record of building permits from the time of the renovations. A different Austin contractor — not Cupertino Builders — received a federal grand jury subpoena in 2021 for records related to work on Paxton’s home that started in January 2020.

Cupertino Builders was formed in October 2020 and dissolved less than two years later, according to Texas corporation records. Its manager was Sagiraju, who said in a deposition for an unrelated case that he did “consulting” work for Paul’s business and had an email address with Paul’s company.

Sagiraju acknowledged that he served prison time for securities fraud and grand theft in California before moving to Austin, according to a transcript of the deposition. He said he was first introduced to Paul by a mutual friend before his prison term and they later did “a few projects” together.

A lawyer for Sagiraju did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Paxton was separately indicted on securities fraud charges in 2015, though he has yet to stand trial.

#us politics #news #the associated press #impeachment #ken paxton #texas #bribery #Nate Paul #fbi #department of justice #2023 #Dan Cogdell #Cupertino Builders #Narsimha Raju Sagiraju #The Wall Street Journal #Tony Buzbee #Angela Paxton #securities fraud

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ghostlyarchaeologist · 3 months

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Leverage S04E14 The Boys Night Out Job.

#leverage #nate ford #connor #liam #timothy hutton #paul glazier #brandon petty #nate's 'oh shit oh shit oh shit say something!' face gets me every time #ghostly'sgifs

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lindseymcdonaldseyelashes · 2 months

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Leverage 2x15 - "The Maltese Falcon Job"

#christian kane #leverage #eliot spencer #nathan ford #timothy hutton #alec hardison #aldis hodge #bradford culpepper iii #tony kadjic #paul blackthorne #the maltese falcon job #nate doesn't praise the team nearly enough so this is nice

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alisaasblog · 8 months

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gossip girl x tvd 🙊🙊🛍️💸🤑🧛‍♀️

#2014 tumblr #bring back 2014 #2014 aesthetic #2014 #spotify #i miss 2014 #ian somerhalder #paul wesley #nina dobrev #leighton meester #chuck bass #ed westwick #nate archibald #blair waldorf #elena gilbert #damon salvatore #stefan salvatore #gossip girl #the vampire diaries

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vanweezer · 4 days

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drummer & bassist of mollusknot: snoey snordison and snaul snray

#slipknot #joey jordison #paul gray #at this point ill have a whole farm of 'knotsmen as zoo animals #are snails at zoos? they gotta put snails in zoos #im not talking about nudibranch at aquariums im talking about tito the tiny from my yard #anyways i was paid (five bucks) by a mysterious source (nathan) to do this and well i hope they got their moneys worth #artings #joey #paul g #nate tag

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blacksea-bitch · 2 years

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hacash · 1 year

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shout out to Paul Reynolds, a man who was told by his teammates to delete sonogram pictures of his daughter off his phone due to a fundamental miscommunication over the term ‘naked girl’

#ted lasso #ted lasso spoilers #isaac: you deleted your daughter's baby pics bruv?#paul: you said to delete any pictures of naked girls that exes had sent us #paul: my now-ex-wife sent these to me so I thought...#isaac: ....I wonder if nate has an opening for a captain at west ham...

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so-long-soldier28 · 7 months

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did a thing...

(bare with me, I have bad camera quality)

ian looked me in the eye & i'm still recovering

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annieqattheperipheral · 1 year

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Cannes yacht drunk nate lore for the ones asking

bonus: sid's rapper name💀

tw: biznasty + spittin chiclets

#that cannes yacht story #nathan mackinnon #nate dogg #sidney crosby #lil croz #lilcroz #tyson barrie #ryan whitney #paul bissonnette #rear admiral #roman josi #brayden schenn #claude giroux #team canada #prague #hockey worlds

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alanangels · 10 months

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Foo Fighters at Glastonbury Festival(June 23rd,2023)

I would LOVE to buy Josh's shirt!

Plus:

#foo fighters #dave grohl #pat smear #nate mendel #chris shiflett #rami jaffee #josh freese #paul mccartney

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246bce · 1 day

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2024 Leverage Rewatch: 1x06 The Miracle Job Maybe I’m not here to save this church, Nate. Maybe I need to lose this church to save you.

#leverageedit #leveragecentral #nate ford #the miracle job #tvedit #smallscreensource #cinematv #we steal it back for you #paul totally saw nate's liver in this one #leveragerewatch24

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wolves-in-the-world · 26 days

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okay the miracle job priest is still kinda shouty and not nearly charismatic enough to get away with the fire and brimstone stuff, in my opinion, and I cannot excuse someone who breaks the seal of the confessional because he's angry about something like this.

however? his odd and ineffective sermon about the owner of the land not having his hands in the soil and the worker having faith in god and in his own abilities, about the worker not waiting for a miracle but making one happen?

it ties into something quite nice in this episode, actually: we get to see the bad guy's underling look increasingly uncomfortable with what's going on until he very publically puts the final nail in his boss's coffin, and in doing so reveals to us that he's an actual character with free will and motives and a sense of justified betrayal, and not just background decor.

and that sermon, clumsy and emotionally ineffective as it is, coming after nate telling tomas in the confessional that he has to make things right… yeah I can see how that would push him to take a stand when shit goes properly sideways.

and it's nice, that the key to this win comes at the hands of a local, someone the church is for and has been all his life. it's nice that we don't see nate really abusing being mistaken for a priest in the confessional, as much as the ethics are very much up for debate.

I just wish they'd gotten a better actor for a priest who's sort of meant to be the heart of the community alongside the church we want to be saved. though it's not like it doesn't make sense for an old friend of nate's to be an already angry dude who is, admittedly, kind of at the end of his tether.

(and it's really not his fault that I'm always, always holding up fictional priests against bbc's father brown.)

#the miracle job #leverage #orig #somehow I'd always assumed that paul was maggie's brother and nate's brother-in-law and it turns out that's not in the text at ALL #which is a wild realisation to have the nth time watching the episode let me tell you #also yes I'm being very critical of this dude but as someone who's sat through many dull sermons #out of a vague sense of obligation I think I'm allowed #there may be a cultural difference here in how preachers present themselves actually #though whether it's US/UK or catholic/protestant or both I don't know

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mysticforleansworldd · 11 months

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Phoebe Tonkin + Tvd universe cast

#tvd universe cast #phoebe tonkin #nina dobrev #candice king #ian somerhalder #paul wesley #daniel gillies #danielle rose russell #danielle campbell #joseph morgan #riley voelkel #kat graham #claire holt #charles michael davis #nate buzolic #summer fontana #christina moses #leah pipes #chris wood

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comicwaren · 3 months

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From Cable Vol. 5 #001, “United We Fall”

Art by Scot Eaton, Cam Smith, Victor Nava and Java Tartaglia

Written by Fabian Nicieza

#cable #nathan summers #belle #nate summers #irene merryweather #grey gargoyle #paul pierre duval #marvel #comics #marvel comics

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sleazyjanet · 2 years

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ted lasso text posts [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12]

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marquisoforder · 2 years

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MAN Nate Mitchell’s portrayal of Black Noir and the writing for his arc this episode were phenomenal like the fact that he doesn’t talk and we can’t even see his face but all the emotions he portray with his physicality as Black Noir alone… amazing work

#Paul Grellong’s writing too actually #black noir #the boys #the boys amazon #Nate Mitchell #erik kripke

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