Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton spent New Year's Eve 2024 at a Dubai party with two men who fled federal health care fraud charges. The Wall Street Journal reports the news. Paxton is the GOP pick for Senate. He brought his girlfriend. One of the two men, Anosh Ahmed, had donated to him.
What's on the record
- Paxton's campaign called the report a politically motivated attack; CNN's Andrew Kaczynski (@KFILE) noted the statement does not respond to the specifics.
- The size of Ahmed's donation comes from a single reporter (@efindell); CBS describes one fugitive only as a donor.