Judge Who Nixed Health Care Owns Stake in GOP Firm

Attorney general paid consulting firm $9K this year
By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff
Posted Dec 13, 2010 2:09 PM CST
Judge Who Nixed Health Care Owns Stake in GOP Firm
This 2010 handout photo provided by US District Judge Henry Hudson, shows Hudson at the court in Richmond, Va.   (AP Photo)

Surprise! Henry Hudson, the federal judge who ruled health care reform unconstitutional today owns as much as $50,000 worth of stock in a GOP political consulting firm that opposes health care reform. According to financial disclosure forms spotted first by the Huffington Post and then Gawker, Hudson has made between $32,000 and $108,000 in dividends since 2003 from shares of Campaign Solutions, a firm that’s worked for anti-Obamacare crusaders like Michele Bachmann, John Boehner, Sarah Palin, and John McCain.

It gets worse: Ken Cuccinelli, the Virginia attorney general who brought the suit Hudson ruled on today, paid Campaign Solutions $9,000 for services rendered this year. But Campaign Solutions maintains that that doesn't amount to a conflict of interest because Hudson was an investor long before George W. Bush appointed him to the bench, and has no knowledge of the firm's day-to-day affairs. (More Henry Hudson stories.)

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