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Courthouse Conspiracy?
Judge Takes Controversial Action
May 6, 2006 - The Delaware County's top judge wants to know how sensitive information is getting out, so he's taken matters into his own hands.
Fears of espionage at the Delaware County Courthouse...now revelations that the president judge had the building swept by ex-federal agents looking for bugging devices. Judge Kenneth Clouse has confirmed paying 2 former FBI agents nearly 2-thousand dollars to see if courthouse phones were tapped. Clouse, who was not available for comment, told a hi-level county official that too much sensitive information has been leaking out.
The judge's anti-bugging operation was done without the knowledge of the county council, which controls the purse strings, but does not monitor all the court's day-to-day business.
Judge Clouse has been under fire from a county political blog, which regularly rips republicans and Clouse in particular, on cases over which he presided and has included comments about his private life. Was he trying to shut down the leaks to a blogger known as Peter Porcupine?
Chairman Reilly and the president judge have clashed before and Reilly is not ready to sign off on this use of taxpayer's money.
2 thousand dollars out of a county budget of 400 million dollars may seem like a drop in the bucket but his story about leaks does provide a window into the kind of political gamesmanship and paranoia that are legend in Delaware County.
(Copyright 2006 by Action News. All Rights Reserved.)
posted by Peter Porcupine @ 9:59 AM
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2 Comments:
AM I RIGHT IN UNDERSTANDING THAT THE 2,000 PAID IS PAID BY TAXPAYERS MONEY? WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? AREN'T THERE CHECKS AND BALANCES TO MAKE SURE THAT MY TAX DOLLARS AREN'T SPENT BY A PARANOID EGOMANIAC?
From the Yale U. Law School Blog:
>P.S. If you insist that Chadwick wasn't railroaded at the county level or that the findings of "fact" solicited at the Media, PA County Courthouse are credible - despite the virtual absence of due process given Chadwick - merely as Exhibit "A" please read this statement made by a character witness the defense would have called to impeach the plaintiff, Mrs Chadwick-Applegate:
"Oh...we know all about what Mr.Chadwick is going through. How we know? We live next door to his ex-wife Barbara Chadwick. My husband and I have lived in the town of Thomaston for twenty-four years and Barbara Chadwick/aka Applegate had all kinds of suits against us(FALSE ALLIGATIONS) She and her new hubby thought they could come into a small town and brag about their wealth, dig for more money and rule us. Well, what they didn't know is that we are a tight knit little town and she thinks she can fool us like she is with the PA Judge. Our Lawyer saw right through her just as many in our town. The Judge on Chadwick/Applegate vs. Chadwick is so wrapped tight around Barbara's finger that it shows how weak the Judicial system can be. People think Mainers are backwards and stupid...Oh Ms.Applegate now knows she can't move our mountains. She sure plays quite a tune with Pennsylvania that must be a real stupid place to live! If they can't see through her negative ways and check on her legal history of taken people to Court...Wow! POOR Mr.Chadwick is stuck in the spiders web! We hope and pray for Mr.Chadwicks release. It is such a terrible thing to think that any sane decent human being can think that she/he can have so much power over someone to keep them squirming like a worm on a hook...it must be a personal thing with the individuals who have consumed such false power."
LESA KITCHING
THOMASTON MAINE
But there was no hearing! And 10 1/2 years have passed...
In conclusion a political hack like Clouse in DELCO... is all that stands between us and the Bastille.
Posted by: j. katz at November 13, 2005 08:59 PM
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