Paxton Witness Who Ducked Impeachment Trial Subpoenaed by Feds

A key witness who refused to testify at Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s impeachment trial last month has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury, a person familiar with the secretive court proceeding said.

Kevin Wood, a contractor who worked on a remodel at Paxton’s home in 2020, is scheduled to appear in a federal courtroom in Texas in mid-October, the person said.

Wood’s grand jury summons is significant in that it signals federal authorities, who opened a bribery investigation into Paxton three years ago, are not backing off even after the attorney general was acquitted by the ...