Journal Sentinel Questions Judge in Milwaukee Archdiocese Bankruptcy

Cap Times
August 16, 2013

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The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel criticizes U.S. District Judge Rudolph Randa for failing to disclose that he has family connections to the Milwaukee Archdiocese as he sits in judgment of the church's bankruptcy petition. Randa has relatives buried in the archdiocese's cemetery and has ruled that the church's cemetery funds are apart from the bankruptcy. The least he should have done, the paper says, is to reveal that information.

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