$168,800 A Year: Judge Quits Job Because Salary Couldn’t Support A ‘Judge’s Life’ In New York

A $168,800 salary that was boosted by a pay raise wasn’t enough to keep a New York City judge behind the bench.

 

Justice Ariel Belen said the raise was “too little, too late” for him to stay as a judge of the Appellate Division, the New York Law Journal reported Thursday.

“The pay raise was welcome, but it really was long overdue and I don’t think really changes substantially a judge’s life, particularly in [...]

JUDGE: TWITTER Must Turn Over Occupy Protester’s Tweets

Twitter has been ordered to give a New York City judge almost three months’ worth of an Occupy Wall Street protester’s tweets despite the social networking company’s efforts to fight prosecutors’ demand for the messages.

Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Matthew Sciarrino Jr.  also ruled Monday that prosecutors would need a search warrant — not just a subpoena — to get the final day’s worth of tweets they seek from Malcolm Harris. [...]

Most of us commit federal crimes every day without even realizing it.

Montanafesto
April 16, 2012

Former Butte Montana city judge, Steven Kambich, convicted of bribery in federal court was sentenced this week to paying $5000 in restitution, far less than even the total of the bribes he accepted, and five years of probation.  He faced fines of $250,000, a prison sentence of up to 10 years and 3 years of supervised release.  Kambich offered guilty pleas in January for accepting bribes in excess of $13,000 in [...]

NO BAIL FOR WORLD’S BANKER

NEW YORK – A New York City judge says the head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges.

A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared Monday before a Manhattan judge.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to hold Strauss-Kahn without bail. His attorneys had suggested that prosecutors set $1 million bail and promised the IMF managing director would remain [...]

Strauss-Kahn denied $1 million bail

NEW YORK – A New York City judge says the head of the International Monetary Fund must remain jailed at least until his next court hearing for attempted rape and other charges.

A tired and grim-looking Dominique Strauss-Kahn appeared Monday before a Manhattan judge.

Prosecutors had asked the judge to hold Strauss-Kahn without bail. His attorneys had suggested that prosecutors set $1 million bail and promised [...]