[BITList] new orleans judge removed

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?well, it makes a change from the daily murder
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        Senate convicts La. judge, removes him from office 
        Updated at 11:10 a.m. ET
         U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous has been found guilty by the Senate. 
        CAPTIONBy Harry Hamburg, APThe Senate has found U.S. District Judge Thomas Porteous of New Orleans, Louisiana guilty on four articles of impeachment and has removed him from the federal bench. 
        He was accused of accepting gifts from people with business before him and of lying to the Senate and the FBI.

        This marks the first time since 1989 that a federal judge has been removed by the Senate. Porteous is only the eighth federal judge to be convicted and removed from office through impeachment.

        The vote on the fourth article, which alleged high crimes and misdemeanors, was 90-6. The articles overall alleged that Porteous "engaged in a pattern of conduct incompatible with the trust and confidence placed in him."

        Porteous, 64, was appointed to the federal bench by President Bill Clinton in 1994. He has been suspended with pay since 2008. Now that Porteous has been removed from office and is not yet 65, he will not receive his federal pension.

        The House impeached Porteous in March.

        In 1989, impeached federal judges Alcee Hastings and Walter Nixon were found guilty by the Senate and removed from office. Hastings, a Democrat, has been a member of Congress from Florida since 1993. Nixon practices law in Mississippi.
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