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Law Practice

Sep. 19, 2008

Schiff Will Lead Judge Impeachment Task Force

California Rep. Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, will head an impeachment task force investigating a federal judge, House Judiciary Committee leaders announced Thursday.

By Robert Iafolla
Daily Journal Staff Writer

WASHINGTON - California Rep. Adam Schiff, a former federal prosecutor in Los Angeles, will head an impeachment task force investigating a federal judge, House Judiciary Committee leaders announced Thursday.

The probe, the first targeting a sitting federal jurist in nearly 20 years, will examine allegations that U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Porteous of Louisiana took bribes from lawyers, filed a bogus ...

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