US Judge Shared Confidential Details of Criminal Investigation

A federal trial judge won’t be disciplined after being found to have disclosed information about an ongoing criminal probe that may have helped the target obstruct the investigation.

According to a recently published order from the Judicial Council for the Fifth Circuit, the unnamed judge was accused by a law enforcement agency of sharing “sensitive and confidential information regarding a law-enforcement public corruption investigation” with a family member, after learning it during a sealed proceeding in a criminal case.

The information was alleged to have then been shared with the target of the investigation, “and that the disclosure allowed the ...