Texas bombshell puts Google advertising antitrust suit at risk subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2020/1…
Last week, seven top officials in TX AG Ken Paxton's office reported him to law enforcement for "improper influence, abuse of office, bribery, and other potential criminal offenses.”
H/T to @statesman for the original story statesman.com/news/20201003/…
Three of those 7 people -- Jeff Mateer (Paxton's No. 2), Ryan Bangert (No. 3) and Darren McCarty -- are key figures in the Google probe
Mateer resigned Friday; Bangert and McCarty's status is unclear. But with the leadership in TX now in flux, the Google ad tech complaint is also in limbo
The Dem AG Association -- which reps 25 state AGs -- came out with a statement pressing for Paxton to resign.
“These latest allegations, combined with the indictment pending against him on charges of securities fraud, put the work of Paxton's office — and even the joint work among offices of state attorneys general — at risk.”
That "joint work"? Google
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