Emails obtained by The Dallas Morning News showed the Texas attorney general's office attempted to circumvent a ruling from the state's chief accountant and...
“Simply put, it is unclear that the CPA has authority to withhold AG Paxton’s salary under these circumstances,” Lesley French, office chief of staff wrote in an email to the director of the comptroller’s fiscal management division on Wednesday.
The emails showed intention and revealed a conflict between the two agencies with officials in Paxton’s office insisting that the Texas Constitution merely required his suspension but was silent on the issue of his pay. The pay request prompted the comptroller’s office to briefly “hold” the entire payroll for the attorney general office’s 4,200 employees. Emails show French appeared to interpret that move as a means to force the office to amend their pay request, which it did.
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