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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…”

On the recordFebruary 27, 2002
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.
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Arlen Specter
Democratic · Pennsylvania
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Discussing Judge Smith's potential conflict of interest in a case involving a bank.

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