Clifton Park judge accused in ticket fixing scheme
The Times Record reveals six letters from judges asking Judge Lips to reduce or dismiss traffic tickets for friends and relatives. Names include Police Justice Robert Murphy Voorheesville and others from Malta, East Greenbush, Schenectady, Wappingers Falls, and Durham, with tickets reduced to non moving violations or fines.
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Judge Lips
Robert Murphy
Voorheesville
Murphy
Robert C. Butler
John St
Rensselaer
C. J. Barr
Northway
Lips
Butler
Sons of Guns
Department of Motor Vehicles
Malta
Morgan Bloodgood
East Greenbush
Pierce and
Kins Road
Clifton Park
Saratoga County
C. J. Dewey
Justice Bloodgood
Bloodgood
Guilderland
Matthew Mataraso
Judges and police pressed for traffic charge reductions
A Times Record review shows Clifton Park and area judges and police seeking or granting reductions from speeding to lesser offenses on multiple tickets from 1975 to 1976. Notes reference Judge Lips and others pressing to curb charges, with several cases detailing letters from judges and police soliciting leniency.
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Willard Anderson
Newtonville
Mataraso
Times
Threat plea fails to halt James Warner extradition
Albany reports that a state appeals court ordered James Warner of Troy extradited to Massachusetts on an armed robbery charge after a hearing in which Warner claimed a contract for his death was placed on him. He asserts he testified in a 1973 murder trial against a Rhode Island underworld figure.
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Roland Widmer
Troy
Donald Kazi
Northway
Troy PD
Albert) Prezio
Menands
Duncan MacAffer
Lips
Norman K. Wagner
Elnora
D. A. Kazi
Wagner
Saratoga County
John Marshall
Evelyn Tillman
Anna Lane
Ballston Lake
Reed
Rotterdam
Edward Longo
Albert Cinfardo
Harrison St
Schenectady
Justice Court
Ciafardo
Albany
James Warner
Boston
Massachusetts
Rensselaer County
Don G. Cholakis
Cholakis
Warner
Rhode Island
Lawrence C. Conners
Court of Appeals
Sidewalk scam costs Colonie woman three thousand dollars
A Colonie woman was swindled when three men offered sidewalk repair and demanded 100 dollars. After she left, her home was ransacked and 3000 dollars stolen. In another incident a Latham man was assaulted and robbed of his wallet at a Route 7 parking lot. he was treated and released from Albany Memorial Hospital.
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Colonie
Latham
Price Shopper
Route 7
Albany Memorial Hospital
Loudonville Library Holds Summer Reading Club
The Colonie Town Library at 629 Albany Shaker Road Loudonville will sponsor a summer reading club for children starting July 5 with the theme Backyard Travel Registration opens June 27 at the library.
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Loudonville
Colonie Town Library
Albany Shaker Road
Tires and wheels stolen from truck at Dunning Motors Route 9
Colonie police reported a Monday night burglary at Dunning Motors on Route 9 in which four tires and wheels and a rear bumper were taken from a truck valued at 321 dollars. A separate burglary on Kings Road Tuesday night saw an air conditioner displaced to gain entry and items including movie cameras and jewelry stolen.
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Colonie
Dunning Motors
Route 9
Kings Road
Stolen gun reported in Colonie larceny incident
Colonie police said David J. Carnevale of 32 Campus View Drive was victimized Tuesday night when a briefcase containing a 44 caliber revolver was taken from his car parked at the A Frame Restaurant on Route 5. The revolver and briefcase were valued at 218 dollars.
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Colonie
David J. Carnevale
Campus View Drive
Aframe
Route 5
Letters to the Clifton Park judge on speeding cases
Citizens write in with humorous and earnest explanations for speeding tickets to Clifton Park Town Justice Richard Lips. Explanations range from birds and windshield wash to hill physics and Army convoy traffic, with several defendants convicted despite their justifications.
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Butler
Malta
Morgan Bloodgood
Lips
Maror Ajmera
Tamarac Lane
How the Times Record Uncovered Ticket Favor Links Clifton Park Justice Lips
Reporter Nancy Albaugh investigated speeding ticket reductions linked to Clifton Park Justice Richard Lips. She reviewed Lips' files by prior appointment, with access arranged through public records officials, while a state judicial conduct probe proceeded. Lips declined comment.
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Times Record
Clifton Park
Nancy Albagh
Richard Lips
Lips
Albaugh
State Committee On Public Access To Records
Appellate Division
The
State Supreme Court
Justice Lips
Kathleen Powers
State Commission
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