Securities & Exchange Commission v. Princeton Economics International, Ltd.

OPINION AND ORDER

OWEN, District Judge.

Defendant Martin A. Armstrong 1 has moved under date of March 21, 2002 to recuse me as the Judge presiding over this civil action. He alleges various grounds. The first is the Court allegedly “authorizing a secret judicial inquisition of past conduct further ordering the withholding of all evidence gathered thereby, the use of the ancillary power of the Court constituting] a non-judicial act that violates Article III.” (Armstrong Moving Papers, p. 27.) Mr. Armstrong bases this claim on para. 13(b) of a certain eight page Memorandum of Agreement (“MOA”)…