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Cannot help myself from these stories 12/24/2010 10:16:05 AM
WSJ- It seems that a few weeks ago the Senate voted overwhelmingly 96-0 to convict a federal judge impeached by lawmakers on charges of accepting cash and other gifts from people with business before him.
The charges include running a kickback scheme to assign cases to certain attorneys, taking gifts from attorneys and bail bondsmen, filing for bankruptcy under a false name and lying to the Senate and the FBI.
The lawyer for the judge said that while the judge was at fault for bad judgment, there was no link between the cash and case assignments. He also said that the judge's actions were either unintentional errors or didn't rise to the constitutional standard of "high crimes and misdemeanors" required for him to be removed from office.
