Yes, it is a Republican scandal -- involving prostitution, possible tax fraud, and the Bu$h Junta. And yes, I must warn you that SOME LINKS ARE NSFW.
I have penned a number of diaries exposing rampant corruption in Colorado's courts, with the most spectacular ones involving the precipitous fall of Chief Judge Edward W. Nottingham -- a Bush #41 appointee -- of the District of Colorado. And while our crack team of local investigative reporters was all over this scandal like white on rice (it was, after all, a sex scandal), none of them bothered to ask the question that really mattered: Was Judge Nottingham taking bribes to support his habit?
As sex is the only way I'll get this on the rec list, I'll start with the question male Kossacks are most likely to be interested in: "What sort of call girl does a H.W. Bush-appointed judge call on when he needs his gavel pounded? (Follow the link, and vote for your favorite below.) But the weirdest part of this story is in what hasn't been reported on yet.
In case you're wondering, Nottingham is on the left and "Paulie Walnuts," on the right.
Judicial Fuckonomics:
The first thing you need to know about these ladies is you didn't come cheap. The going rate for these vixens was $300-350 an hour, although Judge Nottingham reputedly patronized them so often that he got frequent flier miles:
The driver told 9NEWS he took prostitutes to meet Judge Nottingham at two locations in the Denver area about 10 times during the summer of 2007. ...
The driver also told 9NEWS he met the judge in person, then later looked him up on the Internet and saw his picture.
The driver says he saw Judge Nottingham outside the condo complex on Steele Street interacting with the prostitutes several times.
"They always seemed pretty affectionate, you would almost think they were a couple by the way that they acted together," the driver told 9NEWS. "They would hug each other and almost kiss on the cheek and then they would go inside."
The driver says the women returned from their meeting with the judge with $300 or $400 in cash per visit. [source]
Another lady of the evening claimed "she had sex with Judge Nottingham for $250 to $300 an hour once a week from February 2003 through November 2004 at the former escort agency Bada Bing of Denver." 9NEWS (KUSA) further reported that "Judge Nottingham married his wife, Marcie Jaeger, on Valentine's Day 2004, and that the marriage ended after Jaeger found the credit card charges from a strip club [totaling $3,000 for a single evening] in downtown Denver." They also noted:
Court documents from the hearings obtained by 9Wants to Know show Judge Notting- ham and Jaeger both testified about the judge's use of what he called an Internet dating service. Jaeger testified that when she confronted Judge Nottingham in his chambers about credit card charges to the site, the judge pulled up the site on his federal computer with one key stroke.
"When I asked about the dating service he turned around in his chambers and he hit his computer and he told me all about the dating service," Jaeger said in court. "It was a porn site."
The Web site, called IPayFriendFinder.com [the actual site is adultfriendfinder.com; visit at your own risk], has many portals, some of which lead to sexually graphic material. Court records show that Judge Nottingham has made more than a dozen payments to the site totaling more than $500.[1] [source]
Most high-end escort services offer downright graphic reviews, but only to those designated as VIPs (presumably, known customers); the reviews suggest that these ladies don't do Hugh Grant quickies. Many offer what they call the Girlfriend Experience: "[D]uring those hours, night or days together, the illusion of a girlfriend has to be there or the extended engagement doesn't work that well."
If you're doing the math in your head, you're probably figuring that this is getting very expensive very fast. Four visits a month (the Judge apparently preferred outcall -- for obvious reasons -- which is more expensive) with an average $400 tip is going to run you a good five grand a month. While that may be petty cash for a partner in a BigLaw firm like now-Chief Justice Roberts, the lowly federal district judge earns what a Congressman does: $165,200. After taxes, that works out to about $10,000/month in take-home pay.
This becomes an obvious problem: According to his financial disclosure statements, Judge Nottingham had virtually no outside income (third wife Marcia was a "real estate developer"; assets and sources of spousal income must be disclosed) and minimal liquid assets.
When you are single, you can spend your money on pretty much what you want to spend it on -- but if you're married, it's pretty hard to spend half your freakin' take-home pay on hookers without the wife finding out -- especially, if it is more than half of the entire household income.
Lifestyles Of the Rich and Republican
If you are a skier, you don't need me to tell you that Vail is an expensive place to live. A weekend round of golf at an upscale club will set you back two bills, and even at a muni, you can expect to pay $60. A decent sit-down dinner will set you back more than a bill, and cocktails can cost as much as $20. Local sales tax is a whopping 8.2%, but on the positive side, property taxes are minimal and ski passes, downright cheap.[1]
What you probably don't know -- and must now be told -- is that Vail is Ground Zero for the Republican social climber (and is there any Republican who isn't?). Jerry Ford used to own a home in Beaver Creek (it's yours for a cool $15 mill); you can find Jack Kemp on most Sunday mornings at Vail Bible Church. Corrupt televangelist (another redundancy) and self-styled "exorcist" Bob Larson (here's his official site, and some of the dirt on him) owns a 5,200-square-foot vacation mansion right on the Country Club of the Rockies. And if you want to see and be seen, you have to be able to throw around a little money. While not much is known about his ex-wife Marcie, this photo tends to suggest that she was a certifiable hottie some twenty years his junior, who traveled well in local social circles.
From background information dug up by our local media, an educated guess can be made as to what the Nottingham-Jaeger marriage was like. Jaeger apparently spent most of her time in Vail, and may have kept her maiden name. Judge Nottingham stayed in Denver during the week, thereby affording him regular opportunities to examine ladies of the evening in chambers, while telling his wife that he was reading legal briefs he never read. While in Denver, he lived large: he was a well-known regular at Elway's, belonged to the exclusive Denver Athletic Club, and was no stranger to local strip clubs. And he was quite the lush, getting so thoroughly plastered that he admitted under oath that literally "could not remember" how he spent more than $ 3,000 drinking himself into a stupor at the upscale Diamond Cabaret (that was only the amount on his credit card; remember, the "entertainers" work for cash tips). The Denver Post reports: "Justin Fankell, manager of Diamond Cabaret, said he remembers Nottingham the night the big bill came in, but he could not remember what the judge purchased. He said, $ 3,000 is not an unusual amount to spend at the club, where a man once rang up $ 36,000 in one night." [cite]
So here, you have your problem: On account of what could well be a sex addiction, Judge Nottingham lived a lifestyle which could not be sustained on a federal judge's net salary of $10,000 a month, and he didn't have enough in savings to make up the difference. He would have to have gotten the money from somewhere, and he didn't even have a paper route.
The Greatest Story Never Told?
When a judge needs a little extra folding money, he knows who to call. Corruption isn't easy to detect on the federal bench: as Alan Dershowitz observes, "[y]ou will be amazed how often you will find judges 'finessing' the facts and the law" [third-party cite]. Unless you are reckless or greedy, it's not too hard to clean the money, as even the most egregious acts of judicial malfeasance are blithely dismissed by the legal community as "error":
A federal judge can be lazy, lack judicial temperament, mistreat his staff, berate without reason the lawyers and litigants who appear before him, be reprimanded for ethical lapses, verge on or even slide into senility, be continually reversed for elementary legal mistakes, hold under advisement for years cases that could be decided perfectly well in days or weeks, leak confidential information to the press, pursue a nakedly political agenda, and misbehave in other ways that might get even a tenured civil servant or university professor fired; he will retain his office.[2]
Here is where this saga gets bizarre: As reported earlier, Judge Nottingham resigned in the face of an allegation that he tried to tamper with a witness in connection with the FBI's ongoing investigation. But even more curiously -- and this is a KnowYourCOurts.com exclusive -- he is not even contesting (Dec. 16, 2008 entry) an ethics complaint filed with the Colorado Attorney Regulation Counsel.
If a judge voluntarily resigns and leaves the bench before satisfying the statutorily-specified age and years-in-service requirement (the so-called "Rule of 80"), the judge forfeits all retirement benefits. As the minimum age for judicial retirement is 65, 28 U.S.C. § 371(c), and Judge Nottingham is only 60, by resigning, he would forfeit what amounts to a $2,500,000 annuity. He has lost his reputation as a sober jurist, which limits his potential income as a rent-a-judge. If he loses his license to practice law, he will have no way to ply his trade. But more importantly, the maximum penalty for filing a false tax return is three years in prison and a fine of $250,000; not including income from bribes to the tune of $60,000 a year is likely to make the folks over at IRS' Criminal Division a bit cross.
Colorado: Chicago's West Ward?
Colorado may well have the most corrupt judiciary in America ... and that is saying something. As veteran Centennial attorney Mark Brennan writes:
[L]egal beagles and politicians controlled by large political contributors to both parties effectively control the appointment of judges or regulatory officials. No one . . . would ever suggest with a straight face that the invariable result is that only the very best people for the job are appointed to the judiciary or to head agencies. They are invariably appointed because their political masters can rely upon them to "play ball", when called upon to do so, at the expense of the citizenry.
Colorado is a wonderful State, to be sure. I certainly enjoy living here. Yet, I have become all too aware of its imperfections in dealing year after year with the unfortunate consequences of its political system, legal profession, and judiciary being populated far too much by craven, unprincipled hacks. [cite]
In Colorado, judicial corruption appears to extend all the way up the ladder. Former state judge Larry Manzanares was allegedly caught stealing a state-owned laptop and then downloading a "massive" cache of pornography on it; he claimed to have bought it from a fence, which is practically admitting to a felony. As is typically the case, the only reason this incident came to light is that a whistle-blower turned this juicy information over to local reporter Tony Kovaleski. What made this story particularly interesting is that Manzanares' fellow Harvard Law School alum, Chief Justice Mary Mullarkey, appears to have intervened on his behalf, in an attempt to shelter him from criminal prosecution. The editors of the Rocky Mountain News were able to put two and two together:
What did Mullarkey know about this case, and when did she know it? A press spokesman for the state court administrator, Rob McCallum, told a Rocky reporter Thursday that Mullarkey had been "briefed" on the case, but could not say when or to what extent. He did say "she never gave any directives." OK, but did she offer any advice? A former district judge was potentially in bigtime trouble, after all; surely that was a matter of keen concern to her, as would be any matter affecting the reputation of the courts. [cite]
Once the story broke, Manzanares' fate was sealed. It is one thing for a judge to be caught stealing, but quite another for him to be downloading alleged kiddie porn. The complaint (as edited for clarity by the Rocky Mountain News) alleges:
During the review of the summary report for the section title previously indicated (related to sexual material), (Boatright) did not observe any individual depicted who could be positively identified as being under 18 years of age. There were, however, numerous females (possibly some males) whose chronological age was questionable (referring to the possibility those individuals could have been under the age of 18). For that reason, (Boatright) will be submitting the images retrieved from the stolen computer to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). (Boatright) is aware that NCMEC maintains a system database where images submitted can be compared for identification purposes. [cite]
A week later, it was over: Larry Manzanares shot himself under a bridge in Denver.
Whether it is in the Nixon White House or the Boston Archdiocese, the system invariably endeavors to protect itself. The only known incident of formal judicial discipline in Colorado in recent memory came about when a judge ratted on a colleague suspected of abusing cocaine on the job; the accuser was replaced as chief circuit judge by the accused -- thereby sending the message that whistle-blowing will not be tolerated.[4]
Ex-Judge Nottingham is still a member of good standing in the judicial fraternity and therefore, eligible for the considerable favors that are customarily bestowed. After having an extramarital affair with a prosecutor who routinely appeared before him -- which allegedly included sex in his chambers, and courthouse showers afterward -- Judge Grafton Biddle had to resign from the bench. Both parties were officially suspended from the practice of law for three years a year ago, but to no one's surprise, both are plying their trade today as if nothing had happened -- Steinman's official record is clean.
With history as our guide, ex-Judge Nottingham can expect leniency from state attorney regulation officials. After all, he has done the Justices a favor in the past, and those kind of favors tend to be reciprocated. As Alan Dershowitz observes:
It is widely known that many state court judges and some lower court judges play favorites among litigants and lawyers. Roy Cohn once famously quipped, "I don’t care if my opponent knows the law, as long as I know the judge." In the old days, it was financial corruption -- cash changed hands. Then it became the "favor bank," in which personal favors are quietly stored and exchanged. I have seen it with my own eyes in the courts of Boston, New York, and elsewhere.[5]
"I Got Friends In Low Places...."
The Achilles heel of our structure of government is that it depends so heavily on government officials monitoring each other, rendering it uniquely vulnerable to collusion. If you can wiretap Congress, you can blackmail individual Congress-critters. If you can hire the Attorney General, you can hire one loyal enough to drive the getaway car while you rob the Treasury. And if you have proper legal authority to prosecute a federal judge for an array of felonies as "part of your job," you can dictate the outcome of an important case. This is, of course, why our judges are expected to be like Caesar's wife, and utterly beyond reproach.
Let's face it: If you are a wiseguy in the Bu$h Syndicate, you have lots of friends. One can certainly conclude that Judge Nottingham proved his loyalty to the Syndicate by helping Bu$hCo put the 'hit' on former Qwest CEO Joe Nacchio for not cooperating with its domestic spying operation. The decision as to whether to prosecute lies in the dirty hands of Greenberg Traurig alum Troy Eid,who lobbied on behalf of Jack Abramoff's most famous client -- evidently, without disclosing it to the Feds. It is thus entirely possible that Bu$hCo reached a deal with Nottingham allowing him to retire on full pay (the same deal reactionary Republican Chief Judge Edith Jones declined to extend to Judge Porteous). In Bu$hWorld, everything important happens in the shadows, and behind closed doors.
It has been two months since Judge Nottingham resigned in disgrace. He is still an attorney in good standing with the state of Colorado, and local reporters have lamented that the local United States District Attorney's office has no intention of initiating criminal prosecuiton.
Whoever said that crime doesn't pay obviously isn't a Republican.
Now, here is the disturbing part: In the wake of the 'bust' of the Denver Players adult escort service, some of the working ladies came forward, alleging that orgies involving the use of cocaine were being held at the ultra-exclusive Denver Athletic Club, and that "judges" -- not singular, but plural! -- were among the ladies' clients. Seasoned legal analyst Scott Robinson opines:
Bad enough, generally speaking, that a federal judge would frequent adult nightclubs, and consort with prostitutes. That alone is shameful and quite troublesome, as it would make the judge vulnerable to blackmail, and important decisions made by a judge who can be blackmailed are inherently suspect. [cite]
If a judge like Ed Nottingham needs to "fix" a case, he knows that his colleagues are unlikely to thwart his efforts, as there might not be a bar for judicial ethics on the planet set lower than the one established by the Tenth Circuit. Professor Ronald Rotunda observes:
[Senior District Judge] John Kane (who gave me permission to quote his e-mail), wrote, "I've been a district judge for 29 years and think the federal judicial house has brought this legislation on itself." He sat on the 10th Circuit Judicial Council when the first complaint about a judge came up for consideration: A district judge was trying to coerce counsel into establishing a library on product liability cases in honor of the judge.
Judge Kane's e-mail is worth quoting at length. He voted for discipline. The vote was 3 to 3, "and so the Chief Judge voted against sustaining the complaint because it was the first such complaint and he thought a close vote was too slender a reed upon which to proceed. As we were leaving the meeting, one of the judges who had voted to dismiss collared me and said, 'John, think about it. The next time it could be you or me. We've got to stick together.'" [cite]
Presuming the candor and veracity of a learned senior judge of this District, his colleagues in the Tenth Circuit saw nothing wrong with a judge soliciting a bribe! After all, any law firm with the wherewithal to establish a library in honor of a judge would presumptively do enough business with the Court to earn frequent filer miles, and the chances of another lawyer from that firm appearing before that judge would approach certainty. As such, the law firm was forced to make a perilous choice: Bribe the judge, and your next case will go well; fail to do so, and things might not end up quite as pleasantly as they otherwise would. And it is worth noting that that corrupt federal judge stayed on the bench, without receiving even so much as a private reprimand.
"I'm Just a Poor, Corrupt Public Official"
As I see it, the fetid sewer that Colorado's judiciary has become is not so much predictable as it is inevitable. Power minus accountability invariably equals tyranny, as anyone who wields that kind of power will eventually find some justification for abusing it.
Colorado is by no means unique in this regard. Operation Greylord is the mother of American judicial scandals: To win a case in Chicago's Cook County, a lawyer had to place a bribe in an envelope for the judge ... and pay the bailiff to give it to the judge.[6] Likewise, it is business as usual[7] in Louisiana, where federal district court judge Thomas Porteous faces impeachment for allegedly taking bribes and concealing them through the filing of false financial disclosure statements, and two local judges were convicted on bribery charges late last year. In New York, judicial sinecures were bought and sold as a matter of course; two more New York judges were indicted just last month. Local state judges in particular are notorious for doing favors for their friends, and occasionally get indicted, but as Willacy County (TX) District Attorney Juan Angel Guerra responded upon summary dismissal of his indictment of Attorney General Gonzales and Lord Voldemort Vice-President Cheney, "I expected it. The system is going to protect itself."
Once judges are bought, they tend to stay bought.
For as long as there have been judges, there have been judges willing to accept bribes -- and litigants prepared to pay them. Sir Francis Bacon reputedly said that he would "usually accept bribes from both sides so that tainted money can never influence my decision."[8] It happens where you would least expect it: a justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court admitted to taking bribes and ratted out two of his colleagues. To Fortune 500 companies like Siemens, convicted of spreading around more than $ 1 billion in gratuities, bribery is just a ordinary and necessary cost of doing business. At times, it seems that everybody's hand is out, from Gov. Blagojevich (D-IL), Sen. Stevens R-AK), and Reps. Cunningham (R-CA) and Jefferson (D-LA) to the local sheriff.
Of course, as a practical matter, judges can't take bribes in each and every case, because it is illegal, and there is a limit as to how much money you can launder without attracting attention. This example, from the depths of history is illustrative:
Sir John Bennett, Judge of the Prerogative Court in Canterbury, was impeached [in 1621] for taking excessive fees and for bribery in the probate of wills and granting of letters of administration. There were as many as thirty cases against him. Walter Yonge wrote in his diary ... "there was found in his custody two hundred thousand pounds in coin. He was s corrupt a judge as any in England, for he would not only take bribes of both parties ... but many times shamefully begged them. [9]
In the seventeenth century, two hundred thousand pounds was a staggering sum; William Jefferson would have needed a separate meat locker to keep the modern equivalent.
Due to the checks and balances built into our system of government, judicial corruption almost always requires some level of cooperation from colleagues and other public officials. By way of example, when Texas Republican Supreme Court Justice David Medina and his wife were indicted for allegedly burning down their own house, fellow Republican district attorney Chuck Rosenthal immediately asked a court to quash the indictment. (As is often the case in Texas, the district attorney was in hot water himself, later resigning amid a scandal involving romantic, pornographic and racist e-mails found on his county computer.)[10]
When judges judge judges, there is a built-in conflict of interest, and when judges are not personally accountable for actions on the bench, they can be counted on to indulge their basest instincts. In civil cases, judges are treated like visiting royalty -- and even when they are convicted of crimes, they are routinely given scandalously short sentences. For instance, although federal district judge Robert P. Aguilar was convicted of federal crimes carrying a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison and $500,000 in fines -- and a minimum sentence under federal guidelines of 21 months -- he was given a six-month sentence and fined a paltry $2,000 by his colleague, Judge Louis Bechtle, thus proving once again that there is honor among judges thieves.
Why This Matters to You:
Without the rule of law, we literally have nothing. We are reduced to a mean state of servitude, as we only have a tenancy at will in our "inalienable" rights. What Sir Francis Bacon wrote four centuries ago is equally true today:
[I]t is the unjust judge that is the capital remover of landmarks, when he defineth amiss of lands and property. One soul sentence doth more hurt than many foul examples. For these do but corrupt the stream, the other corrupteth the fountain. So saith Solomon, Fons turbatus, et vena corrupta, est justus cadens in causa sua coram adversario [A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain or a corrupt spring.]. [http://www.bartleby.com/...cite]
Judges are public officials, who swore solemn oaths to follow the law. "No state legislator or executive or judicial officer can war against the Constitution without violating his undertaking to support it." Cooper v. Aaron, 358 U.S. 1, 18 (1958). Indeed, there could be no offense more pernicious than that committed by public officials under color of law. As one federal appellate judge observed,
...those who receive society's commission to go forth and capture transgressors may not themselves transgress. A free society can exist only to the extent that those charged with enforcing the law respect it themselves. There is no crueler tyranny than that which is exercised under cover of law, and with the colors of justice."[11]
When judges commit crimes on the bench, real people suffer irrevocable injuries. Matrimonial judge Gerald Garson was convicted of taking bribes last year; one of his many victims had a chance to confront him at trial:
But the harshest words for Garson came from Sigal Levi, the Brooklyn woman whose agonizing divorce case provided the backdrop for the ugly drama.
"Mr. Garson, you stole my children," she said, referring to a decision granting custody of the two oldest boys to her husband. "You stole them from their two sisters and their younger brother. You stole them from their grandparents, their aunts and uncles.
"I didn't get what I deserved in your courtroom, but I hope and pray that you get what you deserve in this courtroom today." [cite]
For those few attorneys our there who would doggedly defend our hopelessly corrupt legal system, I would ask: How much arsenic can you tolerate in your drinking water? Just as Judge Kane's colleague observed that the "next time, it could be you or me," the next time, it could be you. One day, I hope and pray that you are the one in their cross-hairs. Gerry Spence laments:
In this country we embrace the myth that we are still a democracy when we know that we are not a democracy, that we are not free, that the government does not serve us but subjugates us. Although we give lip service to the notion of freedom, we know the government is no longer the servant of the people but, at last has become the people's master. We have stood by like timid sheep while the wolf killed, first the weak, then the strays, then those on the outer edges of the flock, until at last the entire flock belonged to the wolf. We did not care about the weak or about the strays. they were not a part of the flock. We did not care about those on the outer edges. They had chosen to be there. But as the wolf worked its way towards the center of the flock we discovered that we were now on the outer edges. Now we must look the wolf squarely in the eye. That we did not do so when the first of us was ripped and torn and eaten was the first wrong. It was our wrong.[7]
It is your wrong, noble barristers, as you are our eyes and ears in our courts. Time for you to step up and demand better.
- While nothing is cheap in Vail, the bargain-hunter can usually find good happy-hour deals -- just follow the blond guys with Aussie accents to find the cheapest beer.
- Richard A. Posner, Overcoming Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 1995) at 111.
- [Reserved.]
- Knowing how Colorado's kangaroo bar courts are run, Judge Manzanares resigned, rather than face formal discipline. It's how things are done in Colorado, which has never removed a judge from office since we went to the Missouri Plan forty-one years ago.
- Alan M. Dershowitz, Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000 (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2001) at 116 (emphasis added).
- United States v. Murphy, 768 F.2d 1518, 1525, 1531 (7th Cir. 1985) (the entire Circuit Court was described as a "criminal enterprise").
- In Louisiana, the joke is that there are only two kinds of politician: those who are under indictment, and those who will be.
- Thomas Grieber, Judges and the Rule of Law at 83 and n. 34.
- Linda Peck, Court Patronage and Corruption in Early Stuart England at 187.
- News reports suggest that Justice Medina was a victim of the subprime mortgage bubble: He borrowed $ 1 million to buy a McMansion, and couldn't afford to make the payments on his paltry $ 150,000 salary as a justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Ironically, his fire insurance policy lapsed on account of non-payment. [cite]
Pretty much everything is political down in Texas, and there is a lot more to this bizarre saga. A fellow Republican judge threw the indictment out on a technicality. Smelling a proverbial rat, two of the grand jurors broke their pledge of secrecy to complain to the public. The jurors sued to make the evidence implicating Justice Medina public, alleging that their character had been impugned by the district attorney and that they had a right to defend their honor:
"Only disclosing the evidence will allow Plaintiffs to show convincingly that they were not animated by the vile and contemptible motives of which they have been publicly accused by truly the strangest of bedfellows--the Medinas' criminal defense attorneys and the Harris County District Attorney's office," the suit says. [cite]
- United States v. Janotti, 673 F.2d 578, 614 (3d Cir. 1982) (Aldisert, J., dissenting; quoting Montesquieu, De l‘Esprit des Lois (1748)).
- Gerry Spence, From Freedom to Slavery: The Rebirth of Tyranny in America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993) at 5-6 (emphasis added).
Some representative judicial scandals that didn't quite make the grade here:
Samuel Kent (S.D. Tex.; GHW Bush - sexual misconduct), Ronald Darby (Tenn.), Kyle Williamson (Iowa), Michael T. Joyce (Pa. -- insurance fraud), Bobby DeLaughter (Miss. -- the Scruggs mess), Wanda Molina (ticket-fixing; it is, after all, New Jersey), Randy Thompson (R-TN -- vote-buying), Ronald Kline (R-CA (former judge) -- possession of child pornography; "Prosecutors have said Kline’s diary contained accounts of him following children in shopping malls and being attracted to boys when he worked as a volunteer baseball umpire."), Mark Pazuhanich (R-PA -- fondling a 14-year-old girl), Donald Thompson (R-OK -- using a penis pump while on the bench and upon release, busted for DUI), John M. Walker Jr. (2nd Cir., Bush cousin -- struck a cop with his car).