Author: David Migoya
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Report: Chief Justice did not approve quid-pro-quo deal to silence threatened lawsuit
A multi-million dollar Judicial Department contract awarded to a high-ranking employee facing firing was not the result of her threatened tell-all sex-discrimination lawsuit but rather a desire to simply keep her employed, according to an eight-month investigation into the deal released Wednesday. The $2.5 million judicial training contract awarded to Mindy Masias in early 2019…
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Colorado Supreme Court ignored subpoena for evidence in scandal inquiry, report says
The Colorado Judicial Department – and by extension its Supreme Court – has refused to comply with a subpoena issued five months ago by the state’s Commission on Judicial Discipline in its effort to force the high court’s cooperation with its inquiry into the alleged coverup of misconduct by judges, the commission revealed Tuesday. In a far-reaching…
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Letters show Colorado Supreme Court stalled discipline commission’s scandal investigation
In the months following the disclosure that a high-ranking former employee of Colorado’s Judicial Department allegedly threated to reveal in a lawsuit years of hidden judicial misconduct, the Colorado Supreme Court threw up roadblock after roadblock — at times even refusing outright to hand over information — at the efforts to investigate the scandal by the body that…
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Former Cherry Creek principal files federal lawsuit claiming culture of misogyny, racism
The former elementary school principal who accused in a federal discrimination complaint that the Cherry Creek School District for years has harbored a culture of misogyny and racism has sued in federal court. In a lawsuit filed late Monday in U.S. District Court in Denver, Linda Maccagnan said the district — consistently ranked among the…
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Cherry Creek School District faces federal discrimination, harassment inquiries
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s Cherry Creek School District — consistently ranked among the best in the state — is at the center of multiple federal discrimination and harassment investigations for its alleged treatment of women and people of color. The allegations of at least one inquiry range from women…
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Four people under criminal investigation surrounding Colorado judicial scandal
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Four former employees of the Colorado Supreme Court Administrator’s Office have been referred to law enforcement for criminal investigation following a yearlong audit into allegations of a contract-for-silence scheme and a whistleblower letter that alleged more widespread fraud, the Supreme Court announced Monday. Auditors concluded…
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Colorado Supreme Court tells judges it’s been cooperating with investigation all along; discipline commission says otherwise
The Colorado Supreme Court — days after it was revealed it was the target of a subpoena by the state commission that investigates judges — told jurists across the state that it had been cooperating with the body all along, intimating allegations that it was doing otherwise were inaccurate. The Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline,…
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Parents of Colorado Springs 6-year-old killed on amusement park ride lash out at prosecutor
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The family of a 6-year-old Colorado Springs girl killed Labor Day weekend at a Glenwood Springs amusement park lashed out Wednesday at a prosecutor’s decision not to charge workers of the ride she died on with a crime, calling it “cheap and meaningless.” “Once again…
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Colorado’s Judicial Department subpoenaed over lack of access to evidence in scandal investigation
Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline has subpoenaed the state’s Judicial Department — and by extension its Supreme Court — to force it to cooperate in its inquiry into the alleged coverup of misconduct by judges following concerns the third branch of government has not been forthcoming with information, The Gazette has learned. Legal experts say the unprecedented…
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Colorado commission pushes first-ever independent watchdog to probe judicial misconduct
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Colorado’s Commission on Judicial Discipline hasn’t been able to pay a law firm it hired last year to investigate allegations of widespread judicial misconduct because the state’s Supreme Court hasn’t given it the money. As a result, the commission on Tuesday made the unprecedented move…