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The Post found what one legal expert dubbed “profoundly troubling questions of judicial misconduct.” The newspaper has since 2015 been investigating Judge Martin Colin, who was married to a professional guardian who practiced in his courthouse and had fees approved by his friends. Elizabeth “Betsy” Savitt had already been accused of stealing from her frail wards’ accounts and indeed she had taken tens of thousands from those accounts without prior judicial approval, according to court documents. It took four months and legal threats to get the state attorney’s criminal investigation into the couple and weeks more to enter every financial statement into a database by hand, but the results were stunning.