In a truly bizarre case, a jury in New York found that former judge Roger Barto lied about being attacked outside his court in 2013. The police maintained that Barto faked the attack and then collected tens of thousands of dollars in medical costs. Judge Barto was also accused in a separate case of stealing from a cemetery.
Bart claimed that someone jumped him, strangled him, and then hit him over the head with a toilet tank lid. The picture from the police shows broken piece of a toilet lid at the scene.
Barto is not a lawyer but some jurisdictions still (unwisely) allow non-lawyers to be judges. He was suspended from the bench by the New York Court of Appeals after the allegations arose.
The county paid $41,477 in Barto’s medical bills. However, there were not wounds consistent with being choked or struck found by the hospital. He was only treated for unrelated medical issues such as gout and high blood pressure.
He was convicted of third-degree insurance fraud, defrauding the government and first-degree falsification of business records as well as a misdemeanor for third-degree falsely reporting an incident. There remain two unrelated counts alleging that Barto also stole gasoline while acting as village cemetery sexton.
Source: ABA Journal
Hell, just do the math!
It’s been a great, civil, day @ the Turley blog today. Simple deductive reasoning will tell you why.
Consisting of. . .
I consider all Bar Associations to be legal criminal enterprises created solely to deny every American who lacks significant funds their due process and create laws to further line the pockets of these idiots they call lawyers/attorneys. They don’t tell you this but when you hire a lawyer their first duty is to the court, not you. You are just a side note with a checkbook.
Perfect solution for dealing with those so-called horrible criminal enterprises consisting terrible creatures called attorneys–enter cases with which you are involved pro se. Represent yourself and see how far you get. The color orange can actually be quite flattering. Lawyers are despicable beings until your ass is on the line.
bam, Love Vegas. Glad you had a good time. Good things should happen to good people, but too often does not. Hope that guy treats you right.
Thanks, Nick. 🙂 Missed you, too! 🙂
Just returned from a much-needed vacay with my boyfriend to Vegas. I think I saw Elvis. He was playing the penny slots at Caesar’s.
Lol! 🙂
bam, Missed you, woman. Hope all is well.
I hope the authorities review all cases heard by this judge. I wouldn’t be surprised if any further malfeasances surface.
Darren – in Arizona, if you have a trial before a Justice of the Peace, you can appeal for a de novo trial before a district court judge. However, if the judge is a lawyer, the district court judge hears the appeal as though he/she was an appellate judge. You have to submit briefs. So, if you are ticketed for DUI in some city courts where the judge is a lawyer, you are appealing the case. If you are ticketed in a small town and get a none lawyer judge, you get a trial de novo. Everybody gets an appeal, except from the Supremes.
Convicted of lying about an assault with a toilet lid?
Who says that life doesn’t imitate art?
bam bam – I think he is claiming the porcelain top, which would be more of a weapon.
America prosecutes the toilet, not the corruption.
“The Governor’s Wife”
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“How Hillary Made that $100k in Cattle Futures”
I can’t remember if I have ever written this up, or maybe just explained it in a interview at some point, but I have had several people ask, so I’ll explain it.
This is how Hillary Clinton “made” $100,000 off of an initial “investment” of $1000 in cattle futures back in the early 80’s.
It was textbook money laundering.
I know you’re shocked – SHOCKED to think that a Clinton could be involved in anything untoward, but I’m afraid it is true.
Back in the 80’s in Arkansas, Bill and Hillary were the power couple ascending first to the position of Attorney General and then to the governor’s mansion. Being the psychopathic whores that they both are, they were all about cashing in on their power and accepting de facto bribes and payola.
In Arkansas the Tyson family (as in Tyson chicken) were the big players at the time. Wal-Mart was still getting off the ground. Old Man Tyson wanted to buy off the Clintons, and so a money laundering scheme was hatched. A futures account would be opened with a broker named Red Bone (no joke) in HILLARY’S NAME.
“Red Bone”
cleared through a company called Refco, which would later become MF Global. That company through its entire history and iterations has always been a hive of villainy.
Anyway, the account was opened in Hillary’s name and Hillary made an opening deposit of $1000.
Every day at the opening bell Red Bone, per Old Man Tyson’s instructions, would put in two orders: Buy 50 contracts of live cattle futures AND sell 50 contracts of live cattle futures. (I’m just using 50 as a round number, I don’t know exactly what the quantites were.)
At the close the same thing would be done – buy 50 and sell 50.
On days in which the market was higher from the open to the close, Hillary’s account would be assigned the lower buy from the open and the higher sell from the close. If the close was $0.25 per pound higher than the open, the math would look like this:
$0.25 X 400 = $100 per contract
$100 per contract X 50 contracts = $5000
A live cattle contract is 40,000 pounds, so the coefficient is 400. Trust me on that. The price is actually quoted in “hundredweights”, hence the dropping of two zeroes.
Now here’s the money laundering bit. The “losing” trades, namely the sell executed at the open and the buy executed at the close at the same prices would be assigned to Old Man Tyson’s account.
On days when the market moved lower from the open to the close, Hillary was given the sell from the open and the buy from the close. Sell high, buy back low. Tyson got the opposite side.
Do that every day for a month or so and you can move $100k from Tyson to the Clintons very quickly. I think Red Bone also threw a few “losers” into Hillary’s account just to attempt to cover their tracks – and yes, he made commission on all of it. I didn’t back the commissions out of the calculation above, but of course Red Bone charged a hefty commission on every contract.
Giving the “good” trades to Hillary and the “bad” trades to Tyson is simply a way to move money from Tyson to the Clintons without Tyson writing the Clintons a check. This is called “money laundering”.
This case was actually the reason why the law was changed and brokers HAD to attach an account number to every order UPON ENTERING THE ORDER. I started in the business in 1997, and that change predated me by 15 years. I can’t imagine how it is that they let people assign account numbers at the end of the day – ever. That is just begging for unfair practices with regards to assigning of prices to customers. Favoritism, frontrunning, etc.
Oh, and Hillary claimed complete ignorance about all of this, which is, of course, a complete lie. She and Bill knew exactly what they were doing and why.
Too bad no one cared about the Clintons being psychopathic liars and conartists, because maybe then Hillary wouldn’t have been able to murder Ambassador Chris Stevens and run all of those guns and MANPADS to the Muslim Brotherhood/AlQaeda, amongst all of their many other crimes.
Things like this matter. Give a money laundering psychopath enough power and they will move on to murder, genocide and tyranny. Ignore these indicators at your own peril.
TinEar
Do your research. Mississippi has several jurisdictions in which judges do not have to be attorneys. That’s only one state that I know of… there are probably several. Just because white males with clout say we have a great system that keeps us free and dripping with liberty does NOT mean it’s true in the slightest… Gotta do it for yourself or the propagandists will…
If one is charged with a crime, I certainly would hope that a lawyer-turned-judge is overseeing the admissibility of the evidence, the behavior of the attorneys, the selection of the jurors and the presentation of the case. This is all for the benefit of the accused – guilty or not. It is rather naive to suggest that oversight of a process so critical to life and liberty should be left to someone with no legal training.
He probably just said it was a guy who appeared to be from Harlem or Ferguson that did this and everyone believed him.. Haha rule of law…
White people in this country are so scared that they will believe almost anything once fear has sunk in.
Thank you Former Indiana Judge.
JT you are aware you do not have to be a lawyer to be a Supreme Court Justice? And having more of them graduates of elite law schools has not made for better justice.
I am a lawyer Steg but I agree with your post. Thanks.
“Barto is not a lawyer but some jurisdiction still (unwisely) allow non-lawyers to be judges.”
Unwisely? I’m not a lawyer, so I don’t get a lot of the legalese. Although, I think if you need to hire a special interpreter so that you are not breaking the laws of a country which derives it’s power from YOU, the governed, there is a problem. If a law can’t be interpreted by a public education high school graduate, it needs to be scrapped and rewritten. Otherwise it is just obstruction of justice.
Why is that even a detail in this story? It doesn’t seem to add anything of value. It also raises questions like, why would this man have behaved any differently if he was a lawyer? Why do only lawyers get to interpret the law? Isn’t that discrimination against non-lawyers? The ‘legally’-disabled? Ha! I am ‘legally-disabled’, meaning I am unable to understand the law without a lawyer! Injustice!
As far as the story goes, good for them. Make him pay.
Although I think attorneys control WAY too much in this country, I do agree a judge should be an attorney. Fraud is my specialty. It is rampant in this country. The private sector fights it. The public sector just talks about fighting it, puts on a dog and pony show once in awhile, but covertly welcomes fraud. The more on the dole, the more beholden to the government. Greece has an island where allegedly 5% of the people are totally blind. Many of them drive cars and boats.
He must be from Texas originally, or he needs to move here since he would fit in with no problem.