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Ex-Judge Robert Cochonour of Illinois; dumb crook, certified idiot

 
Ex-judge Robert Cochonour of Cumberland County, Illinois (about 200 miles south of Chicago) is no longer a judge or a practicing attorney (ca. July 2010.)
 
Despite this fact, I firmly belive that the evidence of his egregious misconduct is highly relevant to further demonstrate that the hyperbolic (BS) claims of the Judiciary that it is an “anomaly” to discover a crooked  judge is pure bunk is in fact highly relevant in disabusing this myth. In truth, at least 50% or more of the judges sitting on the bench in this country and worldwide are certified Judicial Misfits!
 
On Jan 3, 2003, Judge Cochonour was sentenced to seven years in prison after he pleaded guilty to one felony count involving the theft of property in excess of $100,000 from May 1985 through Nov 1990 as executor of the Estate of Jay E. Hayden. A probate judge later ruled that more than $2 million was misappropriated. 
 
In 2005, Hayden’s estate sued Bob, the First Neighbor Bank and Cumberland County public defender John Cutright for fraud. The First Neighbor Bank you say? Who needs these kinds of neighbors, right? In truth, this so-called neighbor should rightfully have provided its neighbors with an inversed chastity belt for protection, right?
 
In August 1992, Bob removed CDs from Ms. Hayden’s safety deposit box and forged her signature on bank documents. The bank then issued a cashier’s check for $312,901 payable to one of Bob’s businesses.
 
On Aug. 20, 1992, the money from Ms. Hayden’s CDs was part of the funds that were wired to the 1st City Bank in Houston, as a payoff for a debt owed by Bob. At the time of this fraud, First Neighbor Bank had knowledge that Ms. Hayden was incompetent and suffering from Alzheimer’s.   Shouldn’t the bank be made to change its name?
 
In late 1992 or early 1993, attorney Cutright prepared a will and related document, which Ms. Hayden allegedly signed canceling all debts owed to her by Bob
 
In Aug. 2004, probate Judge Pacey ruled that Ms. Hayden’s will was invalid because she lacked the mental competency to know what she was signing in 1993, a fact well known to Cochonour at the time.
 
Judge Cochnour’s Criminal Conduct
 
The following is a short list of the criminal conduct Bobby Baby engaged during the time he cheerfully defrauded Ms. Hayden’s estate:
  • Took out a loan for more than $100,000, and subsequently stole the money
  • Continued acting as executor of the estate (paid himself total fees of $360,000) after becoming a judge even though judges are prohibited from practicing law
  • Used $382,000 from the estate to pay off a personal debt
  • Transferred $185,000 from the estate to a bank account he set up in the name of a relative
  • Ripped-off Ms. Hayden’s mother by borrowing $312,000 from her, and later had her sign a will (prepared by his crooked friend) forgiving the loan
Judge Cochnour’s Hyperbolic (BS) defense
 
Bobby testified in a deposition in 2006 that he stole from Ms. Hayden’s estate to cover losses in his family’s horse and oil businesses. Well, I guess that makes it acceptable conduct for a Judicial Misfit, right?
 
Judge Cochnour’s so-called criminal punishment
 
For stealing well over $1 million Bobby only served 2 years and 8 months in prison before being released on a work-release program. 
 
Willie Sutton’s comment of yesteryear that, “I rob banks because that’s where the money is,” should in Bob’s case rightfully be changed to “I steal from the elderly and infirm because I’m a judge and moreover, because I can.” 
 
Judge Cochnour’s taxpayer funded pension
 
The most disgusting part of this story is that after Bobby admitted his guilt, the so-called prosecutor cut a deal with him that allowed Bobby to continue to receive a $76,650-a-year judicial pension. The only reason this felon receives a pension is because the black-robed criminals in Illinois made sure that regardless of their criminal conduct while in office, they would still receive a publicly-funded pension for the balance of their miserable lives. Who is the buffoon that said crime doesn’t pay?
 
Selling of Judge Cochnour’s property
 
In March, 2007, an auction was held to dispose of Bobby’s assets in order to repay the money he stole from Ms. Hayden’s estate. The auction netted $1.725 million for 500 acres of farmland and other assets belonging to Bobby. 
 
How appropriate is it that some of Bobby’s property was located in Crooked Creek, Illinois. A home belonging to Bobby is expected to be sold later at a separate auction. 
 
Bobby’s St. Louis attorney, David Warfield, said “He doesn’t have much left.” That’s pure bunk because we know this crook will be receiving a taxpayer-funded pension of $76,650 a year for the balance of his stinkin life. 
 
I seriously doubt that any of the hardworking and overtaxed residents living in the Toledo, Illinois area are shedding any tears because Ol’ Bobby “doesn’t have much left, right?

 

 

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