Tag: Mindy Masias
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Former Colorado chief justice receives unprecedented public censure
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Letters show Colorado Supreme Court stalled discipline commission’s scandal investigation
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save In the months following the disclosure that a high-ranking former employee of Colorado’s Judicial Department allegedly threated to reveal in a lawsuit years of hidden judicial misconduct, the Colorado Supreme Court threw up roadblock after roadblock — at times even refusing outright to hand over information — at…
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State fraud hotline generates investigations that rarely see light of day
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save 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…
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Colorado’s judicial branch mum on details of alleged settlement between Court of Appeals judge, law clerk
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Results of fraud audit into Colorado judicial misconduct memo may never become public
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Colorado Supreme Court this week handed over for investigation to the Colorado State Auditor’s Office a memo detailing nearly two dozen instances of judicial and administrator misconduct at the heart of an alleged $2.72 million hush money contract scandal, but the public may never…
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Memo detailing alleged Colorado judicial misconduct, sexual harassment also describes sexist workplace
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Lawsuit may shed light on misconduct allegations in state’s judicial department
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A federal lawsuit alleging discriminatory hiring practices at the Colorado Supreme Court is poised to shed light on the recent allegation that former Chief Justice Nathan “Ben” Coats and other court employees gave a contract worth up to $2.75 million to a former judicial employee…