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The administrative law judge assigned to the illegal fish brokeringcase brought by the National Marine Fisheries Service against theGloucester Seafood Display Auction is the subject of multipleinvestigations for allegedly conceding a willingness to decide cases asdirected by his chief justice.
Coast Guard Administrative Judge Walter J. Brudzinskitold the Times yesterday the allegation made in a sworn affidavit by aformer colleague was completely false.
"If it weren’t," he said in a telephone interview, "I’d be in jail and so would my boss."
But Brudzinski said he was barred from discussing thesubstance of the allegations by retired Administrative Law Judge JeffieMassey against Brudzinski and Chief Justice Joseph Ingolia of the CoastGuard administrative court system.