Audit of Supreme Court justices raises eyebrows, questions

[TexasTowelie]

One point that stands out in the legislative audit of the state Supreme Court is the pure chintziness of some of the alleged transgressions.

A justice presumably worth seven figures is tooling around in a nine-year old Buick to save a few bucks on commuting (and on the occasional golf outing)?

A justice presumably skipping out on attending meetings at judicial conferences in order to partake of mini-vacations in locations like San Francisco, San Antonio, Montreal and Boston on the taxpayers’ dime?

Despite multiple conferences, and IRS guidance, the justices ignored directives to report their use of state vehicles as a taxable fringe benefit, presumably to save a few bucks on their taxes?

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[Staph]

1. The justice that performed all of these questionable activities

and showed no contrition is Republican Allen Loughry.

Is anyone surprised?

(For those who have not read the full article, a couple of Democratic judges were cited for not paying taxes on their use of state vehicles for official travel. Both have paid their back taxes. The Republican has loudly proclaimed that he has done nothing wrong, and then shut up about the whole thing. What is it about Republicans and graft?)

[UpInArms]

2. Grifters gotta grift

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