The list of homes owned by Texas’ Ken Paxton grows, adding to his political problems | James Talarico accused his Republican rival of owning 11 homes. As it turns out, he was understating matters

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/paxton-homes-texas-utah-condos-senate-race-talarico

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Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 83 pts · 31d (6 replies)

Dude makes $150k a year and owns 11 homes, 3 condos, a plot of land in Hawaii. Some of those condos he bought were deeded to an address of some woman.

Where did that money come from?

floofloof@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 31d

Pay him and he'll tell you.

jtrek@startrek.website · 21 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Maybe he's a magical pinata and if we hit him money will come out.

Manjushri@piefed.social · 5 pts · 31d

There's really only one way to find out...

EonNShadow@pawb.social · 2 pts · 31d

I wish that money went even a quarter of that far

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 31d (1 reply)

Usually rich people's money comes from intergenerational wealth. So probably it came from his parents.

Brkdncr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 31d

Sounds like he made his first $1m from an investment. Then he moved it all into a blind trust that might not have been blind while he went into politics .

homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 31d

The New York Times’ latest reporting advanced the story, noting the apparent fact that the Republican Senate hopeful, despite making $153,000 a year as attorney general, “recently bought three condominiums at a luxury resort in Utah.” From the article:

Mr. Paxton, 63, purchased the condos, worth a total of $1.6 million, in February, according to local property records, and transferred them to his blind trust. On the deeds, Mr. Paxton listed his address as a Dallas-area home. Police records indicate a woman who is not his wife lives there.

“A woman who is not his wife”. lol

TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 31d
TryingToBeGood@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 31d

Wtf?

o0evillusion0o@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 31d

Fucking pigs

quick_snail@feddit.nl · -2 pts · 31d

I would expect that every multimillionare owns several homes. Why is this shocking? If I was so rich, I'd invest in real estate too.

Billionares meanwhile probably own hundreds of homes. And farms. And other forms of real estate investments