Federal judge paid stripper to buy cocaine & marijuana, which they frequently used together

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Federal judge pleads guilty to drug charges
By the CNN Wire Staff
November 19, 2010 4:38 p.m. EST

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/11/19/georgia.judge.stripper/index.html?hpt=T2



Atlanta, Georgia (CNN) -- A federal judge pleaded guilty Friday to two counts of drug possession and another charge, admitting he had paid a stripper to buy drugs for the two to use together.

Senior U.S. District Court Judge Jack Camp Jr. admitted to giving money to a woman to buy drugs, according to prosecutors.

He pleaded guilty to two counts of drug possession, federal prosecutors said. He also pleaded guilty to one count of conversion of government property for giving the woman a government-issued laptop.

As part of a plea deal, Camp did not plead guilty to a firearms possession charge included in the initial federal complaint.

The plea came shortly after Camp, 67, retired from the judiciary.

[DJ13]

1. Hookers at 67?

Screw that Viagra, Im trying coke.

:rofl:

[Arctic Dave]

2. I want to party with this guy.

Wine and the museum is a good time but sometimes you got to let it all hang out.

[givemebackmycountry]

3. Well, than there is this...

On December 18, 1987, Camp was nominated by President Reagan to a seat on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia vacated by Charles A. Moye, Jr. Camp was confirmed by the United States Senate on April 19, 1988, and received his commission on April 20, 1988.
He served as chief judge from 2006 to 2008.

After Camp was nominated, Fowler introduced him to the Senate Judiciary Committee.

That fall, after a series of contentious hearings, the Senate rejected Reagan’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination of Robert H. Bork, then a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.
By the time Camp appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee, it was near the end of Reagan’s second term and the Senate had failed to confirm 35 of his judicial nominees.
But with the support of both of Georgia’s Democratic senators and U.S. Sen. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina, then the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee, Camp said his nomination was approved. Thurmond backed Camp because he was a Citadel graduate, the judge recalled, telling the Senate committee, “All you need to know about this next man is that he graduated from the finest military institution in the country.”

From Wikipedia - and you just HAD to know that my first question was...

"Who appointed this hand job?"

[Tx4obama]

4. It's time for weekly drug testing of ALL judges :) n/t

Have them ALL pee in a cup - including the SCOTUS :)

[Poboy]

5. They take public funds. Why not! Tests all around.

[midnight]

8. Hmmm... Not such a bad idea....

[Adsos Letter]

6. How will this affect any previous Drug/Prostitution/Firearms cases this guy oversaw?

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. Anybody convicted and sentenced before this guy

can now walk...

Ain't that fun?

Some may very well deserve to walk, but there are a few that definitely should not.

This is a problem for prosecutors.

Just pointing the side effect.

[NuclearDem]

9. I might be wrong, but...

I think it goes to a review board to determine if there was any judicial wrong-doing or if the actions he's been charged over jeopardized his ability to do his job.

It doesn't mean it automatically releases the people sentenced by him.

Again, I might be wrong, and I'm basically just spewing what I remember from L&O :shrug:

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. You are correct

but in the review process... there is the danger.

I just kept it simple...

Locally some years back two cops (bad cops) cost a few convictions. Ok most were the low level folks that perhaps got a scare, but one of them was a high level, with long history, pro...

[jberryhill]

13. Why do you think that?

This I gotta hear...

Do all of the civil awards get refunded too?

[Botany]

10. A republican .... now who could have guessed that?

<Camp, a Vietnam veteran appointed to the bench by President Reagan .....>

Well the strippers and the blow could account for his smile.

http://www.ajc.com/news/atlanta/federal-judge-charged-with-658597.html

Farming, fucking, and drugs ..... I got no problem w/any of that but the hypocrisy makes me
want to :puke:

A 1997 AJC story featured Camp talking about his 19th century farmhouse and 175-acre farm in west Coweta County. Camp, his
wife and two children, grew timber, pumpkins, sweet corn and sorghum and tended to their 14 cows. He referred to himself as a
“sundowner” farmer -- someone who works a job by day and farms afterwards.

Camp found the chores a break from the daily legal grind.

“It’s regular work,” he said. “It’s something you can’t neglect. ”

snip

Camp’s relationship with the stripper, who had a federal conviction related to a drug trafficking case, began last spring, according to the
affidavit. The two would meet when Camp paid her for sex, and they would smoke marijuana and snort cocaine and take the painkiller
Roxicodone together. Camp usually gave the stripper money to buy the drugs although sometimes she provided them on her own,
the affidavit said. She secretly recorded Camp discussing the drug transactions.

[BrklynLiberal]

12. typical repuke hypocrite