He knows the Law, and what a sacred trust it is to be the Keeper of the Flame of Justice. For a Judge to transgress the Law, it requires a deeper intent to pollute the Temple of Justice. He knows how important it is in a civil society for everyone to respect and obey the Law. So, the Judge must be held to a higher standard. A Judge deserves a greater punishment than that of an ordinary street thug who violates the Law. A Judge must be paid double in punishment. His violation is much greater that that of the average criminal.Should the age of the Judge be taken into consideration when a Judge is sentenced? Should his record as a Judge be a factor in determining an appropriate punishment? Should the Judge be given any leniency? Should the Judge's gender be a factor? Should a male Judge get a stiffer sentence than a female Judge?
Should the Nature of the Crime be a factor?If a Judge used his position as a Judge to steal money, should that be a factor? If people loose their lives or are murdered as a result of the Judge's wilful violation of the Law, should that be a factor?
The Law is a Spirit. It is a Process. If the Law is perverted then the Temple of Justice is defiled. The Temple must be cleansed.
https://www.thetrumptimes.com/2017/12/25/judges-break-law-judges-go-jail/
When Judges break the Law, Society comes apart. A Judge must maintain a high standard of conduct or be prepared to go to jail. A Court-room deprived of its Judge is like a soldier in battle who looses his horse because his horse looses a shoe. Society's war against crime is jeopardized.
A Judge can break the Law in many ways. A Judge break the Law inside the court room. One way is to simply ignore the Law. If one party cites the statues and the case law, and the opposing party doesn't have a leg to stand on, according to the Doctrine of Stare Decisis, the party with the case law on its side should win. Stare Decisis is the policy of courts to abide by principles established by decisions in earlier cases. If the judge simply ignores the law and fails to follow the policy of Stare Decisis but rules against the party that was legally right, then that Judge has broken the Law. Should that be a punishable offense?
Judges can lie in their Judicial Orders and their Decisions. That would amount to perjury. Judges are always under oath. Stating an untruth verbally or in writing would be perjury.
Also, if a Judge cites a Case as authority for their Ruling when that Case is not really on point, then that Judge has lied. The Case cited may only be peripherally related to the Issues in the Case. If the Judge knowingly cites the Case as authority, then the Judge has lied under Oath.
A Judge can use his position as a Judge to further his own personal philosophy. He can hide under the cloak of Judicial Immunity all the while perverting Justice in the name of The Greater Good.
Leonard Steven Grasz, is a judicial nominee put forward by President Trump to fill a vacancy on the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Grasz was forced to remove his name from consideration when the American Bar Association (ABA) gave him a failing grade.
After interviewing hundreds of lawyers and judges who had interacted with Judge Grasz, the ABA found a recurring theme: they said his political beliefs would make him unable to be impartial, as a Judge is required to be. They found that he would be unable to separate his role as an advocate from that of a judge. The ABA concluded that Judge Grasz would be able to detach himself from his deeply-held social agenda and political loyalty and be able to judge objectively, with compassion and without bias.
I take no position here concerning these Social Issues, but I merely cite them as examples noted by the ABA. They found that Judge Grasz's biases include a long record of opposing abortion rights, a history of fighting to stifle LGBT rights, and that he had written a legal opinion that warned about the “grave danger” of Nebraska recognizing same-sex marriages.
While these allegations violate the Standards of Judicial Conduct, they do not amount to breaking the Law. Neither would they get him sent to jail. But they did prevent Judge Grasz from ascending to a higher judicial position. An independent and honorable judiciary is indispensable to Justice in our society. The Code of Conduct for United States Judges states that a judge should maintain and enforce high standards of conduct and should personally observe those standards, so that the integrity and independence of the judiciary may be preserved.
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A Judge is a Judicial
Officer, charged with enforcing the Law, and maintaining the Temple of
Justice.
If a Judge breaks the Law, he cannot be treated like an ordinary
criminal. Sometimes it may be necessary to send a Judge to jail. The Judge must be held to a higher standard.The Judge knows the Law, and what a sacred trust it is to be the Keeper of the Flame of Justice. For a Judge to transgress the Law, it requires a greater Specific Intent than a Layman needs to commit a crime. The Judge knows how important it is in a civil society for everyone to respect and obey the Law. So, the Judge must be held to a higher standard.
A Judge's punishment must be greater. His violation is more severe that that of the average criminal.
Should the age of the Judge be taken into consideration when a Judge is sentenced?
Should his record as a Judge be a factor in determining an appropriate punishment?
Should the Judge be given any leniency?
Should the Judge's gender be a factor?
Should a male Judge get a stiffer sentence than a female Judge?
Should the Nature of the Crime be a factor?
If a Judge used his position as a Judge to steal money, should that be a factor?
If people loose their lives or are murdered as a result of the Judge's wilful violation of the Law, should that be a factor?
The Law is a Spirit. It is a Process. If the Law is perverted then the Temple of Justice is defiled, the Temple must be cleansed. Cleansing the Temple may require that a Judge who violates his Oath of Office be punished.
It is important that Society maintains respect for The Law and The Legal Process. People must believe that Justice is blind, and that they will be treated fairly before The Bar of Justice. The integrity and independence of the judiciary must be preserved at all costs.
One can hardly think of a crime a Judge could commit more egregious than Bribery. For a Judge to use his position for personal gain is unforgivable. For a Judge to extort bribes from the lawyers that appear before him is a crime worthy of going to jail. Judge David Black Daugherty is such a Judge.
He extorted bribes from Attorney Eric Conn. Attorney Conn was found guilty of defrauding the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the people of the United States of about $60 Million. Judge
Daugherty’s decisions in cases in which Conn bribed him obligated the Government to pay more than $550 million in lifetime SSA benefits. Daugherty pleaded guilty to two counts of receiving illegal gratuities.
If a Judge over 80 years old is sentenced to jail, it is possible that Judge will die in jail. Judge Daugherty was sentenced to four years in prison for taking more than $600,000 in bribes.
Judge Daugherty was 81 at the time he was sentenced. He was ordered to pay $93.8 million in Restitution, to be on Supervised Probation for a year after he finishes his prison sentence, and to perform 200 hours of community service.
Daugherty was charged along with Attorney Eric C. Conn. Conn made bribery payments to Daugherty from October 2004 to April 2011. Conn pleaded guilty to one count of theft of government money and one count of payment of gratuities.
He was released on Bail, and placed under house arrest. He was forced to wear a GPS ankle monitor while awaiting sentencing. Sometime in June he removed the GPS monitor and fled the country.
He was arrested on December 2nd in Honduras and returned to the United States. A trial date for the escape charges has been set for February 2018.
Eric Conn says life on the lam was ‘horrible.’ What about the lives of those he hurt?
Eric C. Conn’s pitiful
story is close to its final chapter. The former lawyer, now 57, will
likely spend most of the rest of his natural days in federal prison for
defrauding the Social Security system and fleeing from home detention in
Pikeville while awaiting sentencing.
Conn told reporter Bill Estep that his six months as a fugitive in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras were “horrible.” Always looking over his shoulder, “I never got one true minute of relaxation.”
It’s hard to know where to start, but first must be the hundreds of families in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia whose lives remain upended because they entrusted their Social Security disability claims to him.
Many of them have
trouble relaxing because they are still struggling to put their lives
back together. The Social Security Administration is requiring hundreds
represented by Conn to go through the certification process again. Since
Conn destroyed many of the documents their cases relied upon this has
been a time-consuming, arduous process.
And there are the honest lawyers volunteering to help these claimants — they probably don’t find trying to rebuild medical cases from years ago very relaxing.
And there are the two whistle blowers from the Social Security office in West Virginia who got only retribution for trying to alert superiors to the scam Conn was working with an administrative law judge there. Not too relaxing for them to contemplate the damages they’ve been awarded by a federal court that they will likely never collect.
The list goes on — there are the law enforcement agents who probably didn’t find searching for Conn very relaxing, not to mention we poor taxpayers who are footing the bill for not only the search but for his fraud, the cost of prosecuting it and ultimately housing him in a federal institution.
In a 42-page letter, Conn wrote that he suffered “painful guilt,” over his illegal acts. He praised the FBI, compared himself to Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” and Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind.”
But throughout this tedious, self-aggrandizing account he never expressed a word of concern for those he victimized.
Conn told reporter Bill Estep that his six months as a fugitive in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras were “horrible.” Always looking over his shoulder, “I never got one true minute of relaxation.”
It’s hard to know where to start, but first must be the hundreds of families in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia whose lives remain upended because they entrusted their Social Security disability claims to him.
And there are the honest lawyers volunteering to help these claimants — they probably don’t find trying to rebuild medical cases from years ago very relaxing.
And there are the two whistle blowers from the Social Security office in West Virginia who got only retribution for trying to alert superiors to the scam Conn was working with an administrative law judge there. Not too relaxing for them to contemplate the damages they’ve been awarded by a federal court that they will likely never collect.
The list goes on — there are the law enforcement agents who probably didn’t find searching for Conn very relaxing, not to mention we poor taxpayers who are footing the bill for not only the search but for his fraud, the cost of prosecuting it and ultimately housing him in a federal institution.
In a 42-page letter, Conn wrote that he suffered “painful guilt,” over his illegal acts. He praised the FBI, compared himself to Dorothy in “The Wizard of Oz,” and Rhett Butler in “Gone With the Wind.”
But throughout this tedious, self-aggrandizing account he never expressed a word of concern for those he victimized.
A portion of the 42-page handwritten letter Eric C. Conn sent the Herald-Leader.
Attorney Eric Christopher Conn, 58, of Pikeville pleaded
guilty before U.S. District Judge Danny C. Reeves of the Eastern
District of Kentucky to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United
States, one count of conspiracy to escape and one count of conspiracy to
retaliate against an informant. Sentencing is set for September 7, 2018.
According to the plea, from October 2004 to December 2017, Conn participated in a scheme with former SSA administrative law judge David Black Daugherty, multiple doctors, including clinical psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins, and others to submit thousands of falsified medical documents to the SSA to fraudulently obtain disability benefits totaling more than $550 million for thousands of individuals.
According to the plea, of a former SSA employee discovering and providing information about the scheme to federal agents, Conn and former SSA administrative law judge Charlie Paul Andrus conspired and acted to have the former SSA employee terminated in an effort to discredit the employee.
Finally, Conn admitted that after pleading guilty in March 2017, and prior to being sentenced on June 2, 2017, he fled the country with the help of Curtis Lee Wyatt by severing the electronic monitoring device from his ankle and fleeing across the Mexican border.
Conn was originally charged in April 2016, along with Daugherty and Adkins, in an 18-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and other related offenses in connection with the disability fraud scheme.
Conn subsequently pleaded guilty on March 24, 2017, to a two-count information charging him with theft of government money and paying illegal gratuities, and he was sentenced in absentia on July 14, 2017 to 12 years in prison on those charges.
After his flight from the United States, Conn was charged, along with Wyatt, in September 2017, in a seven-count indictment with conspiracy to escape, escape and other related offenses.
On Dec. 5, 2017, Conn was returned to the United States from Honduras after being apprehended by Honduran authorities.
Conn’s plea today resolves the outstanding charges against him.
In addition to the 12 years in prison Conn is currently serving, he now faces an additional 15 years in prison. As part of the plea agreement, Conn agreed to recommend to the Court at sentencing that the Court sentence him to the maximum possible sentence, a 15-year sentence, and run that sentence consecutive to the 12-year sentence previously imposed, for a total of 27 years in prison.
Andrus pleaded guilty in June 2016 to a one-count information charging him with conspiracy to retaliate against an informant, and was sentenced Aug. 7, 2017 to six months in prison.
Daugherty pleaded guilty in May 2017 to a two-count information charging him with receiving illegal gratuities, and was sentenced on Aug. 25, 2017, to four years in prison.
Adkins was found guilty following a six-day trial in June 2017 of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of making false statements, and was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2017, to 25 years in prison. Wyatt pleaded guilty in March 2018, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29.
Fugitive lawyer pleads guilty for escape, fraud
According to the plea, from October 2004 to December 2017, Conn participated in a scheme with former SSA administrative law judge David Black Daugherty, multiple doctors, including clinical psychologist Alfred Bradley Adkins, and others to submit thousands of falsified medical documents to the SSA to fraudulently obtain disability benefits totaling more than $550 million for thousands of individuals.
According to the plea, of a former SSA employee discovering and providing information about the scheme to federal agents, Conn and former SSA administrative law judge Charlie Paul Andrus conspired and acted to have the former SSA employee terminated in an effort to discredit the employee.
Finally, Conn admitted that after pleading guilty in March 2017, and prior to being sentenced on June 2, 2017, he fled the country with the help of Curtis Lee Wyatt by severing the electronic monitoring device from his ankle and fleeing across the Mexican border.
Conn was originally charged in April 2016, along with Daugherty and Adkins, in an 18-count indictment with conspiracy to commit mail and wire fraud and other related offenses in connection with the disability fraud scheme.
Conn subsequently pleaded guilty on March 24, 2017, to a two-count information charging him with theft of government money and paying illegal gratuities, and he was sentenced in absentia on July 14, 2017 to 12 years in prison on those charges.
After his flight from the United States, Conn was charged, along with Wyatt, in September 2017, in a seven-count indictment with conspiracy to escape, escape and other related offenses.
On Dec. 5, 2017, Conn was returned to the United States from Honduras after being apprehended by Honduran authorities.
Conn’s plea today resolves the outstanding charges against him.
In addition to the 12 years in prison Conn is currently serving, he now faces an additional 15 years in prison. As part of the plea agreement, Conn agreed to recommend to the Court at sentencing that the Court sentence him to the maximum possible sentence, a 15-year sentence, and run that sentence consecutive to the 12-year sentence previously imposed, for a total of 27 years in prison.
Andrus pleaded guilty in June 2016 to a one-count information charging him with conspiracy to retaliate against an informant, and was sentenced Aug. 7, 2017 to six months in prison.
Daugherty pleaded guilty in May 2017 to a two-count information charging him with receiving illegal gratuities, and was sentenced on Aug. 25, 2017, to four years in prison.
Adkins was found guilty following a six-day trial in June 2017 of one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud, one count of mail fraud, one count of wire fraud and one count of making false statements, and was sentenced on Sept. 22, 2017, to 25 years in prison. Wyatt pleaded guilty in March 2018, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 29.
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