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Keller fined $100K for financial disclosure lapses

Remarkably, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge Sharon Keller was fined $100,000 today by the Texas Ethics Commission. Here's the ruling (pdf) and initial coverage from the Dallas News, Houston Chronicle, Austin Chronicle, and Texas Watchdog.After Judge Keller falsely pled poverty trying to get the state to pay for her lawyer last year when the Judicial Conduct Commission brought removal proceedings against her, she shoulda seen this coming. Big dollar figure, though, on the fine, perhaps in part because in addition to the property omissions she failed to disclose up to five companies on whose board of directors she sat. That's a bigger deal to me, even, than the property omissions. Perhaps her father really did buy property in Keller's name without her knowledge, as she says (a claim which I've always thought raised questions about Daddy's illicit behavior), but she didn't sit on five company boards without knowing about it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 30, 2010 (boomark / email).