West Virginia Supreme Court impeachments:
tl;dr:
The media reports are complete. Excessive spending was investigated, probably starting with posh renovations to offices. Chief Justice Louhry was indicted by the Feds for using email to defraud for hundreds of dollars across state lines and to cover up larger frauds. The accusations against the justices under investigation sound serious: corruption, gross immorality, and high crimes and misdemeanors. There are no more details for these in the documents.
WV House of Delegates resolutions starting the legislative investigation.
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HOUSE RESOLUTION 4, Introduced February 5, 2018
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2018_SESSIONS/RS/Bills/hr4%20intr.htm
"Relating to empowering the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate allegations of impeachable offenses against West Virginia Supreme Court Justice Allen H. Loughry II"
"Although originally asserted by Justice Loughry that the couch was a gift from a prior Supreme Court justice, subsequently Justice Loughry revised his assertion and then stated that the couch was “abandoned property” although it had been in the possession of the Supreme Court for eight years, and was not abandoned and was in fact donated for use by the Court, and was state property"
SENATE RESOLUTION 44, Introduced February 16, 2018
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2018_SESSIONS/RS/Bills/SR44%20INTR.htm
"Urging the House of Delegates to begin an investigation into potential impeachable offenses by Chief Justice Allen Loughry."
"Chief Justice Allen Loughry oversaw the spending of hundreds of thousands of taxpayer’s dollars on office renovations at a time when the state was in a budget crisis; and
Whereas, Chief Justice Allen Loughry asserted through media interviews that he had little if any involvement with the decisions related to the office renovations; and
Whereas, Chief Justice Allen Loughry’s own emails and hand-drawn images recently released by the media through a Freedom of Information Act request show that he was intimately involved with the design and had full knowledge of the expenses associated with the renovation of his office"
HOUSE RESOLUTION 201, Introduced June 26, 2018.
https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Text_HTML/2018_SESSIONS/2X/Bills/HR201%20intr.htm
"Relating to empowering the House Committee on the Judiciary to investigate allegations of impeachable offenses against the Chief Justice and Justices of the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals."
"[Legislative Audit Report] focused on the use of state vehicles and purchases of gift cards."
"On June 19, 2018, Justice Loughry was indicted in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. The indictment contains twenty-two counts against Justice Loughry that raise serious questions about the administration of the Court and the conduct of Justice Loughry"
"Some or all of the five members of the Court may be guilty of maladministration, corruption, incompetency, gross immorality, or high crimes or misdemeanors"
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