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'Is this legal?': Trump-appointed judge's 'weird' corporate side-hustle stuns insiders
A Federal Judge Turned a Public Office Into Private LeverageThe ArrangementA Trump-appointed judge, Jennifer Mascott, reportedly spent at least six months working one day a week out of a corporate PR firm while serving on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals. She handled staffing, business development, and client relations at Adfero, a company that served corporate and trade-association clients, and staffers and clients said the arrangement made the firm increasingly strange, uncomfortable, and ethically dubious.Power Is the PointThe central fact is not that Mascott found a side hustle. It is…
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