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.
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...
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.
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.
Nudie wannabe, divorcee, adulteress, feminist, first appointment a political favor...God help us.
Locate your office in New York and at some point, you’ll be facing a New York leftwing judge.
It follows as night follows day.
Moral of the story:
Mike Cohen should have put his office in some other place.
“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.”
Seems so quaint now, what with California in open rebellion against US immigration law.