Friday, March 30, 2007
Tapes reveal a potty-mouth judge
Is it the judge’s chambers or a chamber pot?
When it comes to foul-mouthed prattle, Gerald Garson’s robing room should have been called the blue room, prosecutors showed last week.
As they mire through the nearly endless video surveillance footage taken from the former jurist’s private sanctuary, prosecutors learned much about the bribes the jurist allegedly received.
But they seemed to have learned more about Garson’s thoughts on Jews and overweight women.
“Let me tell you something about this job,” the divorce court jurist explained, according to the transcripts of the surveillance footage provided to the press, “One of the greatest things about this job is that I don’t know what the f—k I have tomorrow until I get here.”
“I don’t give a sh-t either,” he said, laughing.
His words are not exactly comforting words to all of those petitioners who came before him before he was arrested on bribery charges back in 2003.
But that’s just a small, relatively clean sample of what is on the surveillance footage and in the transcripts, where Garson allegedly calls Orthodox Jews “Yammy Bops” and refers to at least one woman a “cuchita banana.”
However, it wasn’t the focus of the probe into Garson’s activities to determine just how foul-mouthed the man can be when he felt that the spotlight wasn’t focused on him.
The secret cameras were put in place to catch Garson accepting bribes, which he was seen doing on at least one occasion.
The video surveillance picked up Garson soliciting a check – presumably for the campaign of another civil court judge — from attorney Paul Siminovsky who had several cases in front of the jurist, as well as accepting cigars from him for allegedly giving the attorney “pointers” on how to handle clients and other jurists.
“This is an all day sucker,” he said, laughing at the cigars. “I feel like Groucho.”
On the same surveillance reel, Garson was seen and heard calling an Orthodox Jewish judge a “Yarmulke…a yammy bop.”
“He has the reputation of being a pretty sharp guy,” Garson said. “He’s a yammy. They don’t go to bars, they have arranged marriages.”
http://www.bayridgecourier.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18144873&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=576287&rfi=6
Is it the judge’s chambers or a chamber pot?
When it comes to foul-mouthed prattle, Gerald Garson’s robing room should have been called the blue room, prosecutors showed last week.
As they mire through the nearly endless video surveillance footage taken from the former jurist’s private sanctuary, prosecutors learned much about the bribes the jurist allegedly received.
But they seemed to have learned more about Garson’s thoughts on Jews and overweight women.
“Let me tell you something about this job,” the divorce court jurist explained, according to the transcripts of the surveillance footage provided to the press, “One of the greatest things about this job is that I don’t know what the f—k I have tomorrow until I get here.”
“I don’t give a sh-t either,” he said, laughing.
His words are not exactly comforting words to all of those petitioners who came before him before he was arrested on bribery charges back in 2003.
But that’s just a small, relatively clean sample of what is on the surveillance footage and in the transcripts, where Garson allegedly calls Orthodox Jews “Yammy Bops” and refers to at least one woman a “cuchita banana.”
However, it wasn’t the focus of the probe into Garson’s activities to determine just how foul-mouthed the man can be when he felt that the spotlight wasn’t focused on him.
The secret cameras were put in place to catch Garson accepting bribes, which he was seen doing on at least one occasion.
The video surveillance picked up Garson soliciting a check – presumably for the campaign of another civil court judge — from attorney Paul Siminovsky who had several cases in front of the jurist, as well as accepting cigars from him for allegedly giving the attorney “pointers” on how to handle clients and other jurists.
“This is an all day sucker,” he said, laughing at the cigars. “I feel like Groucho.”
On the same surveillance reel, Garson was seen and heard calling an Orthodox Jewish judge a “Yarmulke…a yammy bop.”
“He has the reputation of being a pretty sharp guy,” Garson said. “He’s a yammy. They don’t go to bars, they have arranged marriages.”
http://www.bayridgecourier.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18144873&BRD=2384&PAG=461&dept_id=576287&rfi=6
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