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Appeals judge should be removed for using client and campaign account as a 'personal ATM,' ethics panel says

A judicial ethics panel is recommending removal of a suspended Georgia appeals judge for exploiting an elderly client before joining the bench and using campaign cash when he was a state legislator to pay for personal expenses, including a family trip to Hawaii.
United States Mark Lefkow Christiana Coomer Debra Cassens Weiss Supreme Court Georgia Supreme Court

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Ethics panel recommends Georgia appeals judge be removed

ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's Supreme Court should permanently remove a state appeals court judge accused of ethical misconduct, a judicial discipline panel recommended in a report released Monday. The three-member state panel said Christian Coomer flouted ethics rules on how a lawyer should treat a client and looted his campaign account to pay for family vacations and loans to keep his struggling law firm afloat.
Dekalb County United States Fulton County Mark Lefkow Dax Lopez Christian Coomer
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