Talarico Hopes a ‘New’ Paxton Scandal Will Make the Buzz Around His 13-Day Vanishing Act Disappear – RedState– redstate.com
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Legacy media and its GOP-E(lite) cohorts are running with a Wall Street Journal exclusive that centers around Texas Attorney General and Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Ken Paxton and his extramarital girlfriend Tracy Duhon taking a trip to Dubai for New Year’s Eve 2024.
This can’t be good: Murdoch owned WSJ has the receipts! Ken Paxton partied with US fugitives on New Years Eve in Dubai. And Lordy, there are tapes! I gifted this so you can read it. https://t.co/ZOTrIbNAdE
— Amy Siskind (@Amy_Siskind) October 13, 2026
Siskind is being deliberately hyperbolic here. There is one 30-second video, and if by “receipts” she means repeating what other Texas outlets have reported over the 23 years of Paxton’s political career, then, yeah.
According to the WSJ, Paxton celebrated in Dubai with two American Muslim physicians: Dr. Anosh Ahmed and Dr. Sameer Suhail. According to a 2025 Chicago Sun-Times exclusive, the physicians were hiding out in Dubai to escape the long arm of the law.
Dr. Anosh Ahmed and Dr. Sameer Suhail, entrepreneurs as well as medical doctors, had matching cars, a matching taste for luxury watches and matching condos at Trump Tower.
They also come from similar backgrounds, immigrating to the United States as children — Ahmed from Pakistan, Suhail from Jordan — and got their medical degrees from overseas schools and built images as businessmen flush with cash.
For more than a year, they’ve also been fugitives — living expensive lifestyles in Dubai while dodging accountability for the damage prosecutors say they caused the West Side’s Loretto Hospital, a safety-net facility serving the poorest Chicagoans.
Prosecutors say Ahmed and Suhail worked together to embezzle $15 million from Loretto, a taxpayer-funded hospital, and steered $19 million of hospital contracts to Suhail through “corrupt” means, including bribery.
Ahmed also is charged in a separate COVID-19 testing scheme prosecutors say defrauded the government of about $300 million.