{"id":43454,"date":"2017-09-07T05:31:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=43454"},"modified":"2017-09-07T05:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T05:31:45","slug":"secretly-taped-talks-lead-to-resignation-for-two-staten-island-judges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/secretly-taped-talks-lead-to-resignation-for-two-staten-island-judges.html","title":{"rendered":"Secretly taped talks lead to resignation for two Staten Island judges"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Secretly taped talks lead to resignation for two Staten Island judges<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Secretly taped talks lead to resignation for two Staten Island judges:- Two high-ranking Staten Island judges stepped down from their administrative posts on Wednesday after secret recordings of the pair were turned over to investigators, a source familiar with the case told the Daily News.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">State Supreme Court Justices Judith McMahon and Stephen Rooney resigned from their positions atop the county\u2019s civil and criminal courts, said Lucian Chalfen, a spokesman for the state\u2019s Office of Court Administration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Sources said the county clerk, Michael Pulizotto, secretly recorded the pair for two years and turned over the tapes to the inspector general on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">It\u2019s unclear what is said on the recordings or whether the judges were heard speaking together or separately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cMcMahon was not well liked. 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It\u2019s her way or the highway,\u201d a source said. \u201cShe especially became worse once her husband became DA.\u201d McMahon is the wife of Staten Island District Attorney Michael McMahon.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Judith McMahon is expected to be transferred to Manhattan courts to oversee civil cases, while Rooney will still hear criminal cases on Staten Island, the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">\u201cAn interim administrative judge for both civil and criminal terms will be announced shortly, while a process is being set up to find a permanent replacement,\u201d said Chalfen.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/new-york\/secretly-taped-talks-lead-resignation-s-judges-article-1.3475809<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/secretly-taped-talks-lead-to-resignation-for-two-staten-island-judges.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Secretly taped talks lead to resignation for two Staten Island judges Secretly taped talks lead to resignation for two Staten Island judges:- Two high-ranking Staten Island judges stepped down from their administrative posts on Wednesday after secret recordings of the pair were turned over to investigators, a source familiar with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43461,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[14907,14908,14909,57962],"class_list":["post-43454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-biggest-online-news-usa","tag-breaking-news-usa-online","tag-daily-news-online-usa","tag-secretly-taped-talks-lead-to-resignation-for-two-staten-island-judges"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}