Judge who ruled against offshore drilling moratorium invests in oil industry

The federal judge who overturned Barack Obama's offshore drilling moratorium appears to own stock in numerous companies involved in the offshore oil industry—including Transocean, which leased the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig to BP prior to its April 20 explosion in the Gulf of Mexico—according to 2008 financial disclosure reports.

So Yahoo reports.  It will not come as a big shock to CP readers — see my June 9 post, "58 percent of federal trial judges in oil-affected states have a...