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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Article posted with permission from Mish Shedlock
