Clifton Park judge faces ticket fixing controversy
The Times Record reports six letters show judges asking Judge Lips to reduce speeding tickets. Names include Police Justice Murphy, Malta Town Justice Bloodgood, Schenectady Family Court Justice Leonard Litz, Wappingers Falls Village Justice Harold Reilly, Durham Justice Ted Waldron, and New Scotland Justice Harold Schultz.
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Malta
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Justice Bloodgood
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Schultz
Judges pressed for traffic ticket reductions in multiple cases
The Times Record reports that Clifton Park and surrounding courts show letters and notes from judges and police asking or approving reductions from speeding charges to lesser offenses. Cases involve James or Olive Monticup, Roland Widmer, and others, with several judges named in Longo and Lips files discussing favors and potential improprieties.
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Olive Monticup
Monticup
Times
Guilderland
Matthew Mataraso
Threat plea fails to bar Warner extradition
Albany based report states James Warner of Troy must be extradited to Massachusetts after the state Appellate Division upheld Judge Don Cholakis’s May 6 ruling. Warner claimed he would be killed if he returned to Boston but the court rejected his fear as a bar to extradition in an armed robbery case.
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Shave
State Commission On Judicial Conduct
Commission
Sr Inv
Joseph Tripodo
Middletown
N. Y
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Saratoga County
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Quinn
Ray
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Reed
Tillman
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Troy
Boston
Massachusetts
Rensselaer County
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Cholakis
Warner
Lawrence C. Conners
Court of Appeals
Conners
Sidewalk repair scheme nets Colonie woman 3000 loss
A Colonie woman paid 3000 after three men posing as sidewalk repair workers demanded payment. They left without issuing a receipt and later returned with a fictitious bill. the bedroom was ransacked and 3000 dollars missing. Police report multiple crimes in Colonie and nearby items include larceny at A Frame Restaurant and a briefcase theft.
Tires and wheels stolen from truck at Dunning Motors
Colonie police reported a Monday night break in at Dunning Motors on Route 9 in which four tires and wheels and the rear bumper were stolen from a pickup. The loss was valued at 21. A burglary at a Kings Road home Tuesday night involved a pushed in rear window air conditioner and the theft of movie cameras and jewelry.
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Route 7
Albany Memorial Hospital
Dunning Motors
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Kings Road
Letters to Clifton Park Justice Draw Mixed Explanations
Clifton Park Town Justice Richard Lips received letters from defendants offering odd excuses for speeding. One man blamed a bird droppings on a washer sprayer, another cited hill physics, a Canadian doctor praised ticket agents, and a Connecticut father warned his son’s license would be suspended. Several petitioners were convicted of speeding.
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Butler
Rotterdam
Edward Longo
Lips
Albert Cinfardo
Harrison St
Schenectady
Saratoga County
John Marshall
Justice Court
Ciafardo
Connecticut
Speeding ticket favors probe touches Clifton Park case
The Times Record traced tickets reduced as favors linked to Town Justice Richard Lips in Clifton Park. Reporter Nancy Albaugh reviewed Lips' files after approvals from public records officials, while a state judicial conduct probe and audits were underway. Lips declined to comment.
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