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Cleveland Scene – May 20, 2004 – In contempt - Editorial
David Palmer, founder, president, and sole member of the Committee to Expose Dishonest and Incompetent Attorneys and Judges, has been dogging guys in robes for years.
In 2001, the Columbus-area man filed theft charges against nine Ohio visiting judges, accusing them of overbilling by more than $50,000. The charges were eventually tossed (big surprise), but some judges admitted Palmer had a point and returned about $7,000 (Bench Warmers,” Oct. 22, 2003)
Now Palmer’s gunning for the chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court. In February, he accused Chief Justice Thomas Moyer of illegally accepting $2,000 last year from the U.S. State Department, which sent him to South America as part of an educational program.
In his complaint, Palmer scolds: “One would have thought that Moyer would have been satisfied with the $530 per day in wages he received from Ohio taxpayers while he was vacationing in Argentina and Chile.”
Moyer claims the $2,000 was to offset travel expenses. But Palmer notes that Moyer’s 2003 financial disclosure statement included more than $6,500 in travel expenses from the State Department, “which means he ‘pocketed’ the entire $2,000 in unlawful compensation.
So now he’s accusing Moyer of “dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentation, and conduct involving moral turpitude” (which, for those of you who don’t speak lawyer, means “lying piece of shit”).
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