Lawsuit accuses Texas’ first assistant attorney general of ‘crimes’ during Paxton impeachment trial

AUSTIN (KXAN) — A lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses several top leaders at Texas’ Office of the Attorney General, or OAG, of a conspiracy to create official documents in order to defame two former OAG employees.

Austin attorneys Judd Stone and Chris Hilton, and their firm Stone Hilton PLLC, filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court.

The defendants in the case are Texas’ First Assistant Attorney General of Brent Webster, Deputy First Assistant Attorney General Ralph Molina, and Deputy Attorney General for Criminal Justice Josh Reno. Webster’s role is second in command to Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Molina and Reno both report up to Webster, according to the OAG’s structure…

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