Word: traitz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possible crime leads, including potentially incriminating conversations between judges and union officers suspected of seeking a little too much brotherly love in the courtroom. Among the first taped was Judicial Candidate, later Judge, Mary Rose Fante Cunningham, who responded to an alleged gift from Union Business Manager Stephen J. Traitz Jr. with the words, now enshrined on tape, "I shouldn't take it, but . . . it's goin' to my family." Confronted by federal agents, Cunningham, who denies any wrong- doing, agreed to become a wired canary, carrying a tape recorder in her purse to gather evidence...
...investigation has picked up a trail of $300 and $500 payments to judges, which the union describes as Christmas gifts. One tape contained Traitz's statement to Judge Mitchell S. Lipschutz that a roofer's nephew, up on a minor theft charge, "just needs a clean bill to get into the Army." Lipschutz acknowledges receiving money but denies doing any favors in return...
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