Arlen Specter: “Judge Smith was further challenged on the issue of conflict of interest when he sat on a case where a bank was a…”

“Judge Smith was further challenged on the issue of conflict of interest when he sat on a case where a bank was a depository, where he had stock or financial interest in the bank and his wife was an employee but the bank was not a party. The trustee in that case was Dick Thornburgh, formerly Governor of Pennsylvania and also formerly Attorney General of the United States. Governor Thornburgh wrote an op-ed piece for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette exonerating Judge Smith from any issue of conflict of interest, citing Justice Donetta Ambrose who succeeded Judge Smith to handle that case after Judge Smith recused himself.”