Loans From The Lawyers

Over about seventeen years a county judge asked lawyers with cases in front of him, and court-appointed receivers he had chosen himself, to lend him money. He took in roughly two hundred thousand dollars this way and repaid almost none of it. He did not disclose the loans where he was required to. He said they were genuine loans between businessmen, not payments for rulings, and that he had never decided a case because of the money.