From the Rank-Has-Its-Privilege$-Works-for-Them-in-Robes-Too Department:
131 federal judges failed to recuse themselves from cases in which they had financial interest
131 federal judges failed to recuse themselves from cases in which they had financial interest: report
BY MONIQUE BEALS
The Hill (from WSJ)- 09/28/21
One hundred and thirty-one federal judges oversaw court cases involving companies in which they or their family members owned stock, according to a new investigation.
Those judges violated U.S. law and judicial ethics as they failed to recuse themselves from a total of 685 court cases in which they may have had a conflict of interest, an investigation by The Wall Street Journal found.
In those cases, about two-thirds of the rulings were in favor of the financial interests of the judge, the Journal reported.
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After the Journal notified the judges of its findings, 56 of them began to alert parties involved in 329 of the lawsuits of their conflict of interest.
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https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/574244-131-federal-judges-failed-to-recuse-themselves-from-cases-in-which
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