 In the course of its investigation, additional issues were discovered relative to splitting the pay of "senior status judges", who are retired judges filling in certain circumstances and who can make no more than 25% of an active judges' salary, between IRS Form W-2 and Form 1099 in order to circumvent that rule; and of the court purchasing "working lunches" at taxpayer expense on a regular basis.On July 11, 2018, Justice Ketchum resigned from the court.On July 31, 2018, he entered a guilty plea in the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia in Charleston to one count of wire fraud.