Posted on 08/06/2002 4:32:34 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:08:01 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
August 6, 2002 -- A disgraced former Brooklyn judge admitted to shaking down a lawyer yesterday - and faces more time in the slammer than any crooked state Supreme Court jurist before him.
TV cameras rolled as Victor Barron, 60, pleaded guilty to demanding $115,000 from an attorney - and collecting an $18,000 cash payment during a shady courthouse meeting - in exchange for his OK on a multimillion-dollar civil settlement.
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I'm SHOCKED, I tell ya'!!! I'm SHOCKED!!!!!!!! sarcasm/func/off
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