There is a former high profile Judge and lawyer here in AUstralia who is facing up to ten years in jail.
His Crime? It all started with a red light camera offence!
When he was issued with a notice, he made a decleration in court that he wasn't behind the wheel at the time, a visting professor from the US was. He just had the bad luck to be in court when a reporter was there who made a note of it. The reporter wanted to get the surname right for the professor, so he did a check (ther is a first time for everything!) and found out the the professor had been killed in a car crash three years before.
Now this is where it gets really twisted! The judge then claimed he had made a mistake in the spelling and the person in question was living in India. The police did a check in India and the U.S. and found no such person existed.
Then the judge produced a person who said she was driving the car. This woman was a convicted con artist and know liar, who had even been sentanced by the judge. By this time the Police had uncovered three other traffic convictions that he had used the same excuse for, and so things were looking bad for the judge. The an Ex patner came forward and gave the police a statement that she had been in the passanger seat when the office took place and the judge was driving.
The juge is now facing 8 criminal counts and his scape goat con artist friend two convictions as well.
I hope he likes porriage!
