AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas Ethics Commission has agreed to reduce a record $100,000 fine it levied against the state’s top criminal court judge to $25,000 as part of a settlement with her.
The commission approved the settlement with Judge Sharon Keller on Thursday in a 7-0 vote, the Houston Chronicle reported. It fined her $100,000 in April 2010 after finding that she did not report a total of at least $3.8 million in earnings and property on two annual financial statements. The fine was the largest in the commission’s history.