ethics

Over the next dozen years, as Paxton was re-elected to the state House and then the Texas Senate, he disclosed owning interests in more partnerships and private companies in annual ethics filings.

But as a scholar of legal ethics, I believe the damage is already done.

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Accounting-firm advisers have raised questions about the ethics of a firm entwined in private-equity work being owned by such an investor.

A Commerce Department spokesman said that Lutnick has “fully complied with the terms of his ethics agreement with respect to divestiture and recusals and will continue to do so.”