BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. — A Barboursville police report released Friday said police recently found a former federal administrative law judge, who has been under investigation, in his car barely breathing after what may have been a suicide attempt.
Various media reports Saturday detailed the police report concerning David Daugherty. That report said he was found unconscious in his car Monday afternoon in a Barboursville church parking lot.
The report said the police found a garden hose running from the car’s exhaust into the passenger side of the vehicle.
Daugherty was taken to a hospital and later released.
Daugherty retired in 2011 shortly after a story in the Wall Street Journal focused on the high rate in which he approved Social Security disability cases. Daugherty was placed on leave after the story broke. Allegations of fraud have been under investigation by a U.S. Senate committee. The committee recently held a congressional hearing.
Daugherty served as a Cabell County circuit judge for 7 years beginning in 1977.