AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, through his Consumer Protection Division, has secured a deceptive trade practices settlement against Vision Path, Inc.—specifically, its Hubble contact lens business—in state district court in Bexar County, Texas. Hubble will pay $300,000 in civil penalties, $70,000 in attorneys’ fees, and $2,100 in restitution for certain consumers. Hubble deceptively marketed its lenses by representing them as “high quality” even though they were manufactured using older technology that many other contact […]
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Attorney General Paxton’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit Locates Woman Who Has Been Missing For Over 40 Years, Shortly After Creating the Unit
AUSTIN –In 1981, two deceased individuals, who were the apparent victims of a homicide, were discovered in a wooded area in Houston, Texas, and their identities could not be determined at that time. In 2021, Identifinders International, through the use of genetic genealogy, was able to positively identify the bodies that were found in 1981 as Florida couple Tina Gail Linn Clouse and Harold Dean Clouse Jr. The couple had an infant daughter named Holly who was not found with the remains […]
AG Paxton Launches Investigation Against Twitter for Potentially Deceiving Texas Consumers, Texas Businesses Over Fake Bot Accounts
AUSTIN –Today Attorney General Ken Paxton launched an investigation against Twitter for potentially false reporting over its fake bot accounts in violation of the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act. On Twitter, “bots” are automated, non-human accounts that can do virtually the same things as real people: send tweets, follow other users, and like and retweet others’ posts. Spam accounts like these inflate followers and reach, and often push deceptive and annoying activity. Bot accounts can […]
AG Paxton Joins Amicus Brief in Support of Florida’s Ban on Sanctuary Cities
AUSTIN –Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined an amicus brief before the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in support of Florida’s law banning sanctuary cities. So-called sanctuary cities are political subdivisions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities. As a result, sanctuary cities have become havens for illegal aliens and all the social, economic, and criminal costs that illegal immigration entails. The Florida law simply required local law enforcement officials […]
AG Paxton Victorious Again: Court Green-Lights Texas Suit Against Biden Administration
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton applauds a Texas federal district court’s decision to deny the Biden Administration’s motion to dismiss Texas’s lawsuit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The suit challenges EEOC’s guidance mandating mixed-use bathrooms, gender pronouns, and dress codes in the workplace, as well as the Health and Human Services’ guidance against Texas’s child abuse laws and so-called sex-change procedures. Although President Biden threatened Texas with lawsuits and the loss […]
AG Paxton Announces $19 Million Multistate Settlement with Ford Motor Company
AUSTIN – Attorney General Ken Paxton announced a $19.2 million multistate settlement with Ford Motor Company, with Texas receiving a $1.7 million share of that amount. The settlement between 40 attorneys general and Ford concludes an investigation into the company’s alleged false advertising of the payload capacity of model year 2011–2014 Super Duty pickup trucks and the real-world fuel economy of model year 2013–2014 C-Max hybrids. The investigation revealed that Ford used a deceptive scheme to […]
AG Paxton Announces Over $620 Million Collected by Bankruptcy and Collections Division During His Tenure
AUSTIN –Attorney General Paxton is pleased to announce that the Bankruptcy and Collections Division of the Office of the Texas Attorney General has collected a total of $51,573,667 for fiscal year 2022, outstripping its $50 million goal for that time period. The goal was set by the Legislative Budget Board, which is a committee of the Texas Legislature that creates budget expectations for legislative appropriations and evaluates state operations. During General Paxton’s time in office, the […]
AG Paxton Denounces SCOTUS Nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson for Her Soft Treatment of Criminals Who Possess, Publish, Produce Child Porn
Attorney General Paxton is leading a coalition of attorneys general in opposing Biden’s nominee to the United States Supreme Court, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. AG Paxton and his colleagues’ objections are based in Judge Jackson’s decades-long, unconscionable leniency toward criminals who possess, publish, and produce child images of child rape. To read the letter click here.
AG Paxton’s Law Enforcement Round Up
HUMAN TRAFFICKING UNIT In Smith County, Brandon Lee Mon Johnson pled guilty to continuous trafficking of persons and sexual assault of a child on February 28 in Smith County. Johnson was sentenced to 40 years confinement in a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison. CHILD EXPLOITATION UNIT In Bexar County, Mel Alan Loeffler was arrested on March 3 on five counts of possession of child pornography. Loeffler provided a voluntary statement and confessed to downloading and viewing images and videos of child pornography. He was then transported to the Bexar County Jail where he […]
Paxton’s Law Enforcement Round Up
The Fugitive Apprehension Unit made several noteworthy arrests last week. In Travis County, Jose Antonio Garcia-Barriga was arrested in Austin on an outstanding warrant for Sexual Assault of a Child issued by the Austin Police Department. This arrest was made on Aug. 6 while working in conjunction with the United States Marshals Lone Star Fugitive Task Force out of Austin. In Travis County, Cesar Ambrosio Sanchez was arrested in Austin on an outstanding warrant for Continuous Sexual Abuse of a Child issued by the Austin Police […]