CAIR-Texas says Paxton allegedly strong-armed an agency into targeting a Muslim community
Council on American-Islamic RelationsCouncil on American-Islamic Relations, through its Texas chapter (CAIR-Texas), in a press release
Responding to Texas Monthly's report, CAIR-Texas says Paxton allegedly pressured a state agency into targeting the EPIC community after the agency found no basis for the case, and asks the State Bar of Texas to investigate him.
“Instead of serving all Texans, Mr. Paxton allegedly even strong-armed a governmental agency into targeting a Texas Muslim community, even after the agency concluded there was no basis for the line of attack Paxton wanted to pursue.”
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Paxton sued EPIC City developers for securities fraud after the state securities board concluded the units were not securities
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the developers of the EPIC City housing project near Plano for securities fraud in December 2025. The Texas State Securities Board says its staff had concluded the project's land units were not securities and told Paxton's office so before he filed. A Texas Monthly report says advisers to Gov. Greg Abbott pressed the agency to refer the case.
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CAIR-Texas asks disciplinary authorities to investigate alleged pressure on a state securities official. The release records that request; it does not announce that an investigation has opened.
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The Houston office of CAIR-Texas posted the chapter's October 15 statement, which asks the State Bar of Texas to investigate Paxton.
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The release cites Texas Monthly's October 12 report on the securities board's findings. The CAIR-Texas statement opens by comparing Abbott and Paxton to Joseph McCarthy and accusing them of launching "witch hunts against houses of worship, voting rights groups and even a cemetery."
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The statement asks the Commission for Lawyer Discipline in the State Bar of Texas to investigate Paxton for potential misconduct.
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The reference point is the Texas government's pursuit of a securities fraud case against the EPIC City developers. CAIR-Texas says Paxton "strong-armed a governmental agency into targeting a Texas Muslim community" and asks for a disciplinary investigation, so we labeled it Condemned. The closest competing label is Challenged characterization; it loses because the statement denounces the case and the officials behind it rather than only disputing whether the units were securities.
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Read the full caseYasir Qadhi says Paxton sued EPIC after the state's securities regulator found no violation
“In March of last year, Abbott’s office drew up a secret memo listing every law the state could use against EPIC. However, the state’s own securities regulator reviewed 100,000 pages and found no securities violation. Paxton sued us anyway, and when that regulator publicly called Paxton’s claim “a wholly false statement,” he was pushed out of his job.”Read statement
EPIC says state officials were determined to prosecute it regardless of the evidence
East Plano Islamic Center
“determined to find a way to prosecute EPIC regardless of what the evidence showed.”Read statement
Olmsted condemns the EPIC City case as a campaign against Muslims
“concocted a securities fraud case as part of a sweeping crusade to target the state’s growing Muslim community.”Read statement
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