Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is to work at a food bank under an agreement, his lawyer says

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton will work at a food bank as part of an agreement he reached with prosecutors earlier this year in his recently settled fraud case, his attorney Dan Cogdell said Thursday.

Cogdell declined to provide further details about where and when the event will take place, citing privacy and security concerns.

“I'm not going to get into it because I don't think it's anyone's business,” Cogdell said. “I don't want protesters to show up.”

Paxton reached a plea agreement in March, just weeks before his criminal securities fraud trial was scheduled to go to trial. In exchange for the charges being dismissed, Paxton agreed to perform 100 hours of community service, complete 15 hours of legal ethics classes and pay about $300,000 in restitution to the victims. He admitted no wrongdoing.

In July 2015, Paxton was charged with failing to tell friends that he would earn a commission on their investments in a North Texas technology company and failing to register with the state as an investment adviser.

The special prosecutors in the case were not immediately available for comment. An appeals court in Houston ruled on Thursday that the special prosecutors may not be paid more than $2,000 for their work on the case since 2016. They had demanded an hourly wage of $300, which would have raised their fees to hundreds of thousands of dollars.