Texas: Bankruptcy judge accused of helping attorney girlfriend land cases

2 named:

• David R Jones, judge
• Elizabeth Freeman, attorney & judge's lover

David R. Jones (left) & Elizabeth Freeman (right)​

Bankruptcy judge accused of helping attorney girlfriend land cases

America's busiest bankruptcy judge has been accused of helping his lawyer girlfriend land huge multi-billion dollar cases. Judge David R Jones allegedly signed off on at least $13 million dollars' worth of fees charged by his lover Elizabeth Freeman's firm. Their relationship was exposed by disgruntled math teacher Michael Van Deelen, who was unhappy with how the judge handled his stake in a bankruptcy case. He received an anonymous letter tipping him off about the affair, the Wall Street Journal reports, with the accusations about the romance later proven to be true. The missive claimed that $700-an-hour lawyer Freeman through ...

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