Texas Bankruptcy Scandal Draws Judge’s Concerns Over No-Recusal

A Texas court case involving two major law firms, a disgraced ex-bankruptcy judge, and the judge’s live-in attorney girlfriend left a federal judge deeply concerned, she said Thursday during the first hearing in the evolving scandal.

Alia Moses, chief judge of the US District Court for the Western District of Texas, said that it was “mandatory” for Jones disqualifying himself on any case his girlfriend, former Jackson Walker partner Elizabeth Freeman was involved in.

At one point, Moses cut off Freeman’s lawyer who said Jones didn’t have to recuse because the two weren’t married, saying, “this should have been ...