A Justice Department unit has identified three Houston jurists and a prominent Kirkland & Ellis LLP restructuring partner as potential witnesses to a growing ethics debacle involving a former bankruptcy judge.
Federal bankruptcy judges Eduardo V. Rodriguez, Christopher Lopez, and Marvin Isgur, as well as Kirkland partner Joshua Sussberg, could all be key to fact-gathering in a civil probe into legal fees that former judge David R. Jones approved for Jackson Walker LLP, according to a record viewed by Bloomberg Law. The investigation is being led by the Justice Department’s bankruptcy monitor, the US Trustee.
Serving as potential fact witnesses ...
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