Taking Paychecks From Donald Trump Directly and Being a Judge in Federal Court in New York

Judge Lee: I have not seen a sitting judge be appointed as a special master before. So this is just sort of like a thing that judges do, but don't get paid for. And so I assume that this is trying to, you know, belt and suspenders, make sure that there is not even an appearance of impropriety. There may be a separate section of the judicial canon of ethics that explicitly prevents you from taking money in these cases. But he will pay them because he's actually incurred them.