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Former Colorado chief justice receives unprecedented public censure
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Nathan B. Coats, the former chief justice of Colorado, received an unprecedented public censure on Monday for mishandling the award of a contract to a judicial branch employee who was facing termination for her own misconduct. Coats, who served as chief justice from 2018 through 2020, admitted to violating the Code of Judicial Conduct’s requirement…
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Colorado Supreme Court justices knew about memo alleging misconduct 2 years before it became public
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Colorado’s Supreme Court justices were generally aware of a memo containing allegations about judicial misconduct nearly two years before it was made public, according to testimony one of the justices gave in an unrelated federal lawsuit deposition. It is the first acknowledgment that the members of the court knew about the memo shortly after it…
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Investigations into alleged judicial misconduct underway as Colorado signs contracts
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The Colorado Judicial Department on Wednesday announced it had signed a pair of contracts for independent investigations into allegations of widespread misconduct across the branch that included a quid-pro-quo deal to a former high-ranking official who threatened a sex-discrimination lawsuit that would reveal it all. The contracts, to total no more than $350,000, were awarded…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
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Colorado auditors have been investigating for more than two years whether fraud occurred at the Colorado’s Secretary of State’s Office when Wayne Williams headed it as an elected official. Williams, a Republican who lost his re-election bid for secretary of state in 2018 and is now an at-large Colorado Springs city councilmember, said he has…
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Colorado judicial system makes public memo detailing alleged misconduct in alleged hush money contract
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Judges in Colorado — apparently including members of the state’s Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court — have engaged in personal misconduct without repercussions, according to the contents of a memo Colorado’s judicial system made public Monday. The memo details sexual relationships between a lower court judge and his staff, pornographic videos sent over…
