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"Cash gifts, liquid lunch -- the case for impeachment"

"Cash gifts, liquid lunch -- the case for impeachment": The Associated Press has a report that begins, "It's not the lifestyle of a typical federal judge: Five or six vodka cocktails during lunch; gambling with borrowed money; bankruptcy under a phony name, and cash, trips or home repairs from lawyers and a bail bondsman with business before his court. Witnesses in the congressional impeachment case against U.S. District Court Judge G. Thomas Porteous Jr. paint a jarring portrait of the former Louisiana state judge who was appointed to the federal bench in 1994 by President Bill Clinton."

And over the past few weeks, The Times-Picayune of New Orleans has published articles headlined "Salary repayment suggestion is more sizzle than steak, observers of Thomas Porteous case say"; "Judge Thomas Porteous impeachment backed by 3 legal experts"; "Judge Thomas Porteous accused of bankruptcy fraud during impeachment hearing"; and "Bail bondsman testifies in hearing for Judge Thomas Porteous," along with an editorial entitled "Judge Thomas Porteous was the bondsman's cash cow."

Full post as published by How Appealing on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).