Why else would you even become a judge if not to defraud people?
…mail fraud, two counts of wire fraud, one count of witness tampering and three counts of making false statements to a federal agent… Loughry was suspended over allegations he repeatedly lied about using his office for personal gain.
I thought this sort of thing was de rigueur during the Trump era, so common as to be hardly worth noticing. It’s the sort of thing that Trump will pardon if some celebrity asks him to. Clearly the feds are being so unfair! 
Mail fraud, wire fraud, witness tampering, lying to the feds … sounds like another model Rethugliklan.
When he’s thrown off the bench there’s always a spot on the Tweeto Legal Dream Team.
This is weird: the dude’s not a corrupt pol, he’s a real academic.
Sounds like Trump’s next pick for the Supreme Court.
Attention Scott Pruitt!
“made false statements” and tried to deceive others about his office renovation, a federal subpoena, the moving of furniture from his Capitol office to his home and his improper personal use of state vehicles."
Attention Scott Pruitt!
I realize it’s probably abundantly clear, just based on the charges and the state he’s from, but his bio confirms:
Allen Loughry
Justice
Allen H. Loughry II is currently suspended without pay as a Justice on the Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. He was arrested by the FBI on the morning of June 20, 2018. He faces up to 395 years in prison. Wikipedia
Born: August 9, 1970 (age 47 years), Tucker County, West Virginia, WV
Party: Republican Party
Succeeded by: Margaret Workman
Books: Don’t buy another vote, I won’t pay for a landslide
Education: Washington College of Law (2003), MORE
Is this one of those pro-gerrymandering jerks in addition?
Actually it is a real anti-corruption piece – " The principal initiative of this body of work is to serve as an educational tool promoting a grass roots effort to clean up the State’s unfortunate political problems and mitigate voter apathy and cynicism." I second avattoir’s comment that this is a weird contradiction.
I smell a pardon and appointment to the SCOTUS…
He also has served a Democratic governor and a Democratic US Congressman and written extensively about corruption in WV politics. Maybe his crime was NOT being a member of West Virginia’s Republican’t mafia…
Manchin lobbying Trump for a pardon for this asshole in 3…2…1…
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Is this one of those pro-gerrymandering jerks in addition?
[/quote]I think his book had something to do with political corruption in West Virginia.
Irony lives.
More on the story:
There is way more to this than what people’s knee-jerk reactions would imply…
Very interesting. There does appear to be much more going on here. Thanks for the link.
Although, this article seems to go the other way, and I note that your article was written by the guy who was arrested. So…
Here’s Whiny’s next pardon.
I don’t know. It just seems to penny ante to me. There has to be more to this story…
I think there’s definitely more to this story. One of the items at issue is supposedly a former justice’s office couch:
In the statement of charges against him,
Tarr said Loughry had his wife call him at work after the neighbors
across the street left their house “so no one would see the desk being
moved out of his house” on Nov. 30, 2017.Neighbors
took photos of the couch being removed from Loughry’s home on Nov. 28,
2017, and Loughry contacted Albright’s widow and son. He said they told
him they didn’t want the couch, which he said was “abandoned property.”After
Albright’s death in 2009, his family declined to take the couch when
they collected his personal belongings from his office, which later was
Loughry’s office. At that time, under state law, the couch was
considered to be a gift given to the Supreme Court from Albright’s
family.The commission found
that Loughry did not adhere to the state’s unclaimed-property policy, in
regard to him taking possession of the Albright couch. If Loughry
didn’t want the couch in his court office, state law requires that it be
deemed surplus property. If it had been deemed surplus property,
Loughry legally could have purchased it, Tarr said.
Just weird.