Courthouse News Service: An attorney who used to run Colorado’s judicial watchdog agency claims the state’s Supreme Court justices, attorney general and governor covered up a multimillion-dollar contract scheme and punished him when he tried to expose it.

Christopher Gregory, former executive director of the Colorado Commission on Judicial Discipline, filed the federal lawsuit Thursday naming several dozen officials in what he calls a six-year conspiracy. The complaint centers on a financial scandal involving Mindy Masias, who was chief of staff at the State Court Administrator’s Office.

“For more than six years, the Justices of the Colorado Supreme Court have engaged in a conspiracy intended to absolve themselves of any accountability for their proven and otherwise incontrovertible violations of various criminal laws and the Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct,” Gregory writes in his complaint.

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