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Originally published at Colorado Free Press.
Colorado’s former top judicial watchdog is taking on the state’s most powerful officials one case at a time, and the filings are now on the public docket.
According to broadcaster Joe Oltmann, who interviewed Rep. Scott Bottoms and Mark Cook, there are 51 related cases filed by former Executive Director of the Commission on Judicial Discipline, Christopher Gregory, (46 of the cases are in Boulder County Court).
Those named in the filings include Governor Jared Polis, Attorney General Phil Weiser, Chief Justice Monica Marquez, and Justices Boatright, Berkenkotter, Gabriel, and Samour. Also named are State Auditor Kerri Hunter, Attorney Regulation Counsel Jessica Yates, Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty, as well as members and staff of the judicial discipline commission that fired Gregory. Oltmann noted that a sealed federal False Claims Act case, United States and State of Colorado ex rel. Gregory v. Masias, (Mindy Masias, former court administrator official), is also listed.
Masias is at the center of this scandal. It was a $2.66 million contract that the judiciary approved to hire her in 2019 while she was facing allegations of misconduct. Later reporting revealed that Masias had cataloged alleged instances of judicial misconduct that she was prepared to disclose. A special tribunal publicly censured former Chief Justice Nathan Coats in 2023 for his handling of the contract with Masias.
Criminal defense attorney Robert Gouveia in a Watching the Watchers livestream said Gregory’s confidential misconduct documents were causing panic within the judiciary and exposed multimillion dollar hush money cover-ups. The post received over 68,000 views, and many replies pointed to Weiser’s run for governor.
In his Boulder County Court declaration filed on October 1, Gregory asks the judge to appoint a special prosecutor and bring criminal charges against Governor Jared Polis; Attorney General Phil Weiser, who is currently running for Governor; State Auditor Kerri Hunter; the Supreme Court justices; and others. Gregory says he tried to report his allegations to Longmont police and that the local district attorney directed police not to investigate.
In federal court, Gregory lost his whistle-blower action on August 11 when Senior U.S. District Judge for the District of Kansas Kathryn Vratil dismissed the action due to the defendants’ sovereign and qualified immunity from Gregory’s claims of conspiracy and related relief and because his complaint failed to contain sufficient facts to state any claim against the defendants. Although he attached 3,700 pages of supporting exhibits, in the end, the Judge declined to comb through them. Gregory has since moved to vacate the dismissal, and he now faces a contempt and sanctions inquiry over about 1,650 pages of exhibits that the state says contained sealed material. He has said he intends to petition the U.S. Supreme Court.
None of the claims have been proven at trial, and the officials named by Gregory have not answered the allegations in the Boulder case. The Attorney General’s office did not respond to the Rocky Mountain Voice. There are now dozens of cases on the Boulder County docket related to Gregory’s whistleblower claims. A resolution by Bottoms to bring in an outside attorney general to investigate the allegations of misconduct in the judicial branch stalled in committee.
Accountability or a nuisance to Colorado’s power structure? A Boulder judge will make that determination.
