Over the past two weeks, Texas and its conservative Republican attorney general, Ken Paxton, settled three separate Medicaid fraud suits with pharmaceutical companies totaling over $123 million.

And proving that politics and law often make for some strange bedfellows, none of those settlements would have been possible without the help of lawyers from Baron & Budd, a Dallas-based plaintiffs firm founded by the late Fred Baron and Russell Budd, two well-known fundraisers for the Democratic Party. The law firm represents the whistleblowers who originally filed all three fraud cases.

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