Paxton impeachment cost exceeded $5.1 million, audit finds

AUSTIN (KXAN) -- Texas paid over $5.1 million to prepare and conduct Attorney General Ken Paxton’s 2023 impeachment trial, according to a state audit ordered by Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick a year and a half ago following Paxton’s acquittal.“As I said from the very beginning, taxpayers have a right to know how much of their tax dollars were spent on former Speaker Dade Phelan’s failed political gambit,” Patrick said in a statement following the audit’s release Friday.