The state’s Judicial Qualifications Commission issued a report Monday recommending that Georgia Appeals Court Judge Christian Coomer be removed from office.
Coomer is accused of a number of ethics violations stemming from allegations that he defrauded an elderly client while working as a private attorney in Cartersville.
Coomer reportedly borrowed $159,000 from an eighty-year-old man with the understanding the money would be paid back in a year, but the agreement actually said thirty years – when the man would be well into his 100’s. In all Coomer is accused of borrowing over $350,000 from the same man, all with terms that were favorable to Coomer. He is also accused of illegally transferring campaign funds between himself and his political campaign fund.
Coomer, a Republican, represented Floyd and Bartow counties in the Georgia House of Representatives for eight years, until he was appointed to the Court of Appeals in 2018. A fifty-page report and recommendation states there is “clear and convincing evidence” to support the charges leveled against Coomer.
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