A New York decide allegedly made vile bigoted remarks whereas on the job — together with saying homosexuality is an “abomination,” claiming Hispanic folks have “deceitful traits” and accusing her colleagues of sleeping their method to the highest, new court docket papers declare.
Brooklyn Surrogate’s Courtroom Choose Harriet Thompson was suspended with pay in December 2021 after the Inspector Common for the state courts “substantiated” misconduct claims in opposition to her, in accordance with the submitting.
The IG discovered that Thompson referred to as 4 different judges “homosexual racist f—-ts” who have been “all f—king one another” and “making an attempt to destroy me and get me,” in accordance with the papers filed by the Workplace of Courtroom Administration because it seeks to uphold the suspension.
“I hate these homosexual white males … being homosexual is an abomination to mankind,” Thompson, who was elected to a 14-year time period in 2018, allegedly mentioned of different judges.
The OCA’s court docket papers lay out dozens of different homophobic, racist or in any other case inappropriate and offensive feedback that Thompson allegedly made earlier than she was benched by New York Chief Administrative Choose Lawrence Marks.
“Plenty of the judges are jealous of me as a result of I’m good, whereas these different judges needed to sleep with and f–okay different folks to get the place they’re at,” the court docket papers declare Thompson mentioned.
Thompson, who made $210,900 in 2021, in accordance with SeeThroughNY, additionally allegedly mentioned that she didn’t like Hispanic folks, accusing them of being liars.
“I don’t like Hispanic folks. They’ve a deceitful trait that goes method again to biblical instances,” the court docket papers allege she mentioned.
The OCA claimed Thompson mentioned “that each time she has a case involving a litigant with a Hispanic sounding identify, she ‘assumed the litigant was a liar.’”
She was additionally accused of demeaning court docket staff’ seems to be, swearing repeatedly and utilizing racist and anti-gay slurs.
The appalling feedback included as soon as saying a homosexual decide was “fats now, from the entire evil of what he’s doing” and criticizing a black decide for having blond hair, the OCA claimed.
She additionally allegedly referred to as a black decide “a home n—-r … and a puppet for the white man.”
Thompson, who beforehand served as a civil decide beginning in 2011 for a 10-year time period, allegedly as soon as mentioned {that a} feminine court docket worker “is a prostitute … I feel her boyfriend is pimping her.”
She filed go well with in April arguing that Marks and OCA wrongfully suspended her – with out giving her the chance to defend herself.
Thompson additionally claimed that false accusations have been made in opposition to her by a disgruntled court docket worker whom she had barred from her circumstances for alleged misconduct.
In December, the IG referred Thompson’s case to New York’s Fee on Judicial Conduct – the physique accountable for investigating allegations of misconduct in opposition to judges and making disciplinary suggestions as soon as their probes are concluded. The CJC’s investigations are confidential.
However for the reason that CJC’s investigations can take a minimum of two years, Marks “decided that it might not be applicable for [Thompson] to proceed to preside over judicial issues at some point of the Fee’s investigation,” the court docket papers say.
Thompson’s lawyer, Matthew Berman, advised The Put up: “The decide denies the entire allegations which are asserted in opposition to her.”
Courts spokesman Lucian Chalfen advised The Put up: “Our place is clearly enunciated in our filings. Any additional remark shall be in court docket.”
