Annette Ziegler

Washington, DC: (May-16-07) The Ethics Board filed charges against Supreme Court Justice-elect Annette Ziegler, claiming that she was guilty of committing an ethics violation. The state Judicial Commission is conducting an ongoing investigation, which brought to light that Ziegler was involved in a scheme, in which a bank paid her husband as a member of its board of directors. She admitted to breaking the ethics code by hearing five cases as a circuit judge in Washington County that involved a bank that paid her husband as a member of its board of directors. Though Ziegler claimed that the investigation confirmed that neither she nor anyone in her family benefited from the decisions in question, she agreed to a settlement in which she paid a $5,000 fine and $12,000 in attorney fees. The commission could seek penalties from the Supreme Court ranging from a reprimand to removal from the bench. [WBAY: ANNETTE ZIEGLER]

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Published on May-18-07