Gwinnett judge acknowledges five-year disclosure failure
Gwinnett County Superior Court Judge Tom Davis had never filed a personal financial disclosure throughout his tenure with the Superior Court and didn't know it until reporters asked him.
"You're saying I've been fined?" Judge Tom Davis asked in a phone interview. Davis, who has been on the court since 2006, accepted that it was his fault. "I blame that on no one else," he said.
Six of the 10 Gwinnett County Superior Court judges amassed more than $2,000 total in fines for not properly fulfilling their legal requirement to disclose financial interests as required by state ethics laws. An investigation by The Georgia News Lab, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Channel 2 Action News found that 37 of 50 metro Atlanta Superior Court judges incurred fines in the past five years.
