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FEDERAL: Will bid-rigging case result in another judicial recusal?

By Michael Stevens

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A few weeks ago I remarked that the number of judicial recusals in the Leonard Lawson bid rigging case was sounding like a Commodores' song, "One, Twice, Three Times a Recusal". Actually, the tune is more like Queen's "Another one bites the dust" as the funky finger of foreknowldge may fall upon Judge Forrester who is the father-in-law of highway industry lobbyist, relatively speaking that is.

See earlier post at Are the recusals in the bid rigging case of robed roulette or recusal round-robin event? Now its Judge Karl Forester!

Story from the Courier Journal:

Latest judge in Lawson case is father-in-law of highway lobbyist

By Tom Loftus ? tloftus@courier-journal.com ? July 10, 2009

FRANKFORT, Ky. ? The new judge in the highway bid-rigging case is the father-in-law of a highway industry lobbyist.

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U.S. District Judge Karl S. Forester confirmed Friday that he is the father-in-law of Sean Cutter, a Frankfort lobbyist whose many clients include the Kentucky Association of Highway Contractors.

One of the defendants in the case, road contractor Leonard Lawson, owns companies that are members of the association. His son Steve Lawson is a former president of the association.

Full post as published by Kentucky Law Blog on July 10, 2009 (boomark / email).