Dozens of federal judges, or their relatives or brokers, actively traded stock in companies that were litigants in their courtrooms at the time, a WSJ investigation found
Mary Geiger Lewis acquired Walmart Inc. stock. Charles Norgle Sr. reported nearly a dozen buys and sells of Pfizer Inc. shares. Charles Siragusa had two accounts that bought Medtronic PLC stock.
None of that would be a problem, except for this: All are federal judges, and at the time of the trades, all were hearing cases involving those companies.
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