The Hill News

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill (D) has been embroiled in scandal back home due to her failure to pay state taxes on a private plane she and her husband own. While this issue may damage her reputation as a good government reformer, her support for the appointment of Judge John A. Ross to the federal court in Eastern Missouri may prove to be much more damaging.

State Judge Ross has been accused by local officials in the St. Louis area of abusing his power in a case related to a multi-jurisdictional fire district, where he took control of the operations of the district away from the duly elected officials who were cleaning up corruption among the Emergency Management personnel who were manipulating leave to dramatically increase overtime payments at taxpayer expense.

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