A U.S. district judge in South Carolina is being reprimanded for signing a contract with Charleston County, where he long served as county attorney prior to his judicial appointment, that guaranteed him $216,000 plus a fee for any opioid litigation settlements it won after he joined the federal bench.
to U.S. District Judge Joseph Dawson, saying the agreement and the $216,000 he was paid "undermined the public’s confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary."
The reprimand followed an investigation by a special committee of judges into allegations raised in a pair of misconduct complaints against Dawson including one by the judicial reform group Fix the Court. Dawson under a deal signed just a week before he won U.S. Senate confirmation in December 2020 stood to earn $216,000 plus a 1.5% contingency fee for his work on a lawsuit the county filed accusing drugmakers like Purdue Pharma of fueling the opioid epidemic.
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