pans trogladyta
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Re: Judge who overturned drilling moratorium reported owning stock in drilling compan
It isn't clear that he doesn't either, so the potential impropriety remains. 15k is a lot of money to me and he had at least 4 sets of potential conflict or as much as 60k. That seems enough to be concerned about. Plus, if you can't be sure if he still owns it, as you say, how can you be sure he doesn't own more by now?
No, and in fact, in looking at the report, he owned the stocks in 2008, it isn't even clear if he still owns them or not, and his stake in each company was in the "less than $15k" range.
He has no need to recuse himself.
It isn't clear that he doesn't either, so the potential impropriety remains. 15k is a lot of money to me and he had at least 4 sets of potential conflict or as much as 60k. That seems enough to be concerned about. Plus, if you can't be sure if he still owns it, as you say, how can you be sure he doesn't own more by now?