Posted on 11/05/2015 5:16:19 PM PST by Libloather
RALEIGH - Superior Court Judge Arnold Ogden Jones II has been charged with trying to bribe an FBI agent with beer and cash to obtain copies of text messages involving members of his family.
Jones, the senior resident Superior Court judge in a judicial district that includes Wayne, Lenoir and Greene counties, is accused of texting the agent on Oct. 10, trying to get copies of text messages exchanged between two numbers. The FBI can only obtain those records with a warrant approved by a federal magistrate judge on suspicion of criminal activity.
According to the indictment, the judge told the agent the messages were "just for (him)" and "involve(d) family members."
On Oct. 19, the FBI agent told the judge there wasn't the legally required probable cause to get the texts, but said he would continue to try if the judge desired.
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No kidding.
In the Obama economy, bribes go down as suffering goes up.
If the bribe is a base of beer, imagine how the suffering is.
AA posting?
Beer? Beer? No some good Scotch malt or vodka?
I could be bought for a couple of cases of beer. Good beer mind you!
Fat Tire
Smithwick’s
Dos Equis Amber
Three Blind Mice (Mother’s Brewing Company, Springfield, MO)
The judge can keep his Miller/Coors/Bud Light crap...
He’s a registered Democrat, by the way. Officially, judges in NC run in non-partisan races, but they can individually be registered with a party.
My sister called me yesterday from Goldsboro to tell me about this case. She had jury duty about 6 weeks ago and
she could not stop telling me about the behavior of the “crazy” judge on the case.
Even after the jurors who were not chosen should have been dismissed, he told them to come back after lunch whereupon he told them his life story and handed out his business cards. This was the capper for her as he had been strange throughout. She could not get over this man.
Then, this story came out. She said it did not surprise her.
Beer? This guy sucks at bribing people. He should be in prison for that reason alone.
“I could be bought for a couple of cases of beer. Good beer mind you!
Fat Tire
Smithwick’s
Dos Equis Amber
Three Blind Mice (Mother’s Brewing Company, Springfield, MO)
You’re such a cheap beer whore. Avery Out of Bounds stout.
I take that as a compliment. :-)
...yet they could not reach a deal as FBI agent Homer Simpson demanded 4 cases of beer and a lifetime PSL at Moe’s.
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