Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20100618:15:44:00
>> reporter: this man, lynn hughes, is the federal judge in houston, texas that bp would like to supervise all of the lawsuits filed against it. essentially judge hughes could make decisions worth billions of dollars to bp, and that's cast a spotlight on his own financial ties to the oil and gas industry. judge hughes owns land that produces oil, land that he leases to oil companies. he gets annual royalties from whatever they pump out. in 2008, the most recent records available, he received royalty payments from con co-phillips between $50,000 and $1000,000, royalty payments from sun oil of $...
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