The Wall Street Journal reports on the case of a judge who has plead guilty and agreed to cooperate in a case of judicial corruption: "A West Virginia judge pleaded guilty Wednesday to participating in a scheme to conceal alleged illegal drug use and election-law violations by a sheriff who was murdered earlier this year, amid a widening corruption probe in Mingo County. Michael Thornsbury, 57 years old, who had served as the county's sole circuit judge since 1997, admitted to promising a local businessman a lighter sentence on a drug charge if he hired a new attorney, with the goal of silencing his cooperation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation."
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