Steps to research a judge’s finances with an eye to determining if he is dirty or not.

• Check who is donating to your judge
• Check for name of your judge’s spouse
• Check judge’s years on the bench
• Request his mandated financial disclosure forms from the state
• Look him (and spouse) up on County Grantor Grantee index
• Make spreadsheet to show loans, amounts and time it took to pay them back
• Check any business interests with Secretary of State to locate more information—business partners, status of business interest, etc. Then run these businesses through the County Grantor Grantee index.
• Check courts to see if your judge’s name or name of business partners are attached to any case
• Check courts to see if he sat on any cases involving business partners
• Make public records act request for phone records (checking for ex parte communications with the other side)
• Check with auditor’s office to see if judge (a state employee) is also receiving monies from the county (conflict of interest issue)