Posted on 04/14/2018 4:10:49 AM PDT by tired&retired
Michael Cohen is asking Judge Kimba Wood to suppress legal documents related to his relationship with Donald Trump in his trial over payments to the pornographic actress Stormy Daniels.
Wood also officiated at a non-denominational wedding service for billionaire George Soros in 2013.
She was nominated as Attorney General by President Bill Clinton but withdrew in a flap over her hiring of a nanny who was not eligible to work in the U.S. As a cash-strapped student she once spent five days in a training course to be a Playboy bunny.
Kimba Maureen Wood is a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
In the Nannygate matter of 1993, Wood was Bill Clinton's second unsuccessful choice for United States Attorney General. Janet Reno was later nominated and confirmed for the post.
On July 8, 2010, Wood was the presiding judge over the US case against ten alleged Russian 'illegals' involved in the Illegals program. She accepted the defendants' guilty pleas and sentenced all ten to time served. The ten were then deported and exchanged for four prisoners previously held in Russia.
On November 19, 2010, Judge Wood received attention in connection with a letter to the court from Bennet M. Epstein, an attorney, who asked for time off from a trial to attend his then-unborn grandson's bris, if the baby proved to be a boy. In response, Judge Wood wrote that Epstein would be permitted to attend the bris, but that "if a daughter is born, there will be a public celebration in court, with readings from poetry celebrating girls and women."
Her first marriage was to Robert Lovejoy, a partner at Davis Polk & Wardwell. She used the name Kimba Wood Lovejoy from 1970 to 1982, and then the couple divorced.
Wood married Time magazine political columnist Michael Kramer in 1982. She retained her own name from that point forward. They had a son, Ben, in 1986, and were divorced some time later.
Wood is currently married to Wall Street financier and former Harvard Law School classmate Frank E. Richardson III, whom she wed in 1999. She had earlier been named as the "other woman" in a divorce battle in 1995 between Richardson and his socialite wife Nancy.
“Kimba” is a good Playboy name.
The seizures of Cohen’s records — which included his communications with his clients, according to Ryan — were led by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, after a referral from Special Counsel Robert Mueller. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein reportedly approved of the move.
Wood was born in Port Townsend, Washington, and was named for the small town of Kimba, South Australia, which her mother saw in an atlas.
So after all of this, we’re told to assume that the trial will be fair ?
I’ll be over here holding my breath. I have about a minute to live, so if you see me turning blue...
Yeah, that’s how I picked my kids’ names.
Interesting article I found about the Obama/Holder release of the Russian spies. The most popular spy was Anna Chapman, the redhead hottie.
The 10 agents — and a suspect still at large after disappearing in Cyprus — were “sleepers” whose job was to blend in at high-powered institutions such as Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government or in Manhattan financial circles, officials said.
Their mission was to gather information and identify potential future government employees who could be helpful, officials said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/08/AR2010070803476.html
QUITE AN ‘OTHER WOMAN’ BRILLIANT JUDGE’LL SURVIVE STEAMY DIVORCE SCANDAL
Federal Judge Kimba Wood has earned many fine titles: star student, loving mother, brilliant jurist and even for a few short days in 1966 Playboy bunny-in-training. But it was not until last week that she became known as “the other woman,” a label foisted upon her after a very private diary written by millionaire Frank Richardson 3d became a very public exhibit in his ongoing divorce battle with socialite Nancy Richardson. “When I first took her head and kissed her lips . . . . How she stiffened and gave slowly, but inexorably,” Richardson wrote in one particularly steamy passage about Wood. If Wood’s past is any indication, though, the 51-year-old federal judge can be expected to face this latest crisis the same way she has faced all tough situations with grace, honesty and guts, friends say. “What’s the big deal? She’s a superb judge,” said noted criminal defense lawyer Judd Burstein. “I could care less about her private life. “If they are going to start making an issue of federal judges committing adultery,” added Burstein, “it’s my guess that we might lose half the federal bench. It’s just absurd.
Wood had no criminal experience at the time D’Amato nominated her for the judgeship and, as a life-long Democrat, she could hardly be said to share D’Amato’s views. One theory is that Wood’s nomination was a way for D’Amato to thank Kramer, who, as a reporter for New York magazine, wrote a scathing article in August 1986 about D’Amato’s two Democratic opponents for Senate, Mark Green and John Dyson. The same kind of criticism would dog Kramer in February 1993, when Wood was forced to withdraw her nomination for U.S. attorney general following revelations that she had hired an illegal alien in 1986 to care for their child.
Her most famous case involved the junk bond king Michael Milken, whom Wood sentenced to 10 years in prison for assorted securities violations. She later reduced the sentence to two years. Charles Stillman, a former federal prosecutor, said: “She felt [Milken] deserved a whack and gave it to him. But later, when there was cooperation on his part, she had the courage to change it.
Sounds like she makes her judgments based on emotion.
Let me understand this, Jeff Sessions has to recuse himself because he went to a party which the Russian ambassador happen to also attend. But MS WOODS who was nominated by Bill Clinton who is married to Hillary Clinton who financed the dossier which start the process leading to the special counsel which lead to the special counsel raiding Trump’s personal lawyer who’s case is in MS WOODS’ court does not need to recuse herself?
Democrats are such special people.
She’s 51 and was a play mate in training in 1966?
Kimba Wood is over 70.
I believe the article mentioning that was from 20 years ago.
Nudie wannabe, divorcee, adulteress, feminist, first appointment a political favor...God help us.
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