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• Source: Milwaukee Magazine
• Date: January 30, 2007
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• Bylines: Geoff Davidian
• Topics: Courts
• Data Types: Local Data
• Description/Excerpt: No judge in Milwaukee has more such conflicts than Dwyer. Of 71 cases in 2005 in Milwaukee County where judges had a financial interest in one of the parties to the case, 54 involved Dwyer. His Ethics Board filings in 2004 and 2005 report five dozen in-vestments of $5,000 or more, including stock in companies that are frequent parties in local civil cases: UnitedHealth Group, Bank of America, Citigroup, General Electric and one of the most litigious corporations in town, Wells Fargo. To determine how frequently judges have such conflicts, Milwaukee Magazine analyzed all civil cases in Milwaukee from the be-ginning of 2004 through the first eight months of 2006 and checked them against financial interest statements filed by judges. The re-sults show 202 cases in which judges had a financial conflict. Besides Dwyer, other judges with conflicts were Elsa Lamelas, Clare Fiorenza, Dennis Moroney and Francis Wasielewski.