Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, was arrested on felony charges yesterday and booked at the county jail in this Dallas suburb after a grand jury indicted him last week for securities fraud, the start of a criminal case that could complicate and even jeopardize his tenure as the state’s top lawyer, the New York Times reported today. The grand jury, whose indictments against Paxton were unsealed yesterday after his booking, charged him with two counts of securities fraud and one count of acting as an investment adviser representative without being registered with the state securities board. The charges stem from accusations that Paxton, a lawyer and former legislator from McKinney, Texas, misled investors and clients while doing securities work in the years before he became attorney general.
