Kentucky

From the Courier Journal: 

Judge assailed for fraud in Kentucky fen-phen case

The judge who presided in Kentucky's scandalous fen-phen case should be permanently disbarred for signing orders ?authorizing and sanctioning the largest scale fraud in the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,? a trial commissioner has said.



Finding that Judge Joseph ?Jay? Bamberger engaged in conduct involving ?dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation,? Susan Phillips, a Louisville lawyer, recommended that the Kentucky Bar Association and state Supreme Court never let him practice law again.



In a 27-page report filed Monday, Phillips said it is ?inconceivable? that Bamberger ? who once was named Kentucky's co-judge of the year ? did not know what he was doing in allowing and covering up the scandal, particularly given that he benefited personally from the fraud.



Bamberger, 68, resigned from the bench in 2006 rather than be removed when the state Judicial Conduct Commission publicly reprimanded him for misconduct that ?shocks the conscience.?