The "fame" of presiding over both the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and (briefly) the liquidation of Madoff Securities perhaps having gone to his head and affected the part of his brain that said, you could go to jail for this you fucking idiot, Judge James Peck has reportedly been charged with hitting his wife Judith. Shockingly, he says he's very sorry and will never do it again.
Madoff Judge Hits Wife [NYP]
Judge in Lehman Case Is Charged With Assault [Dealbook]
Judge of the Day: Bankruptcy Judge Needs Family Law Refresher Course [ATL]
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 2:55PM
Can someone post a picture of the wife so we can get the inevitable "I'd hit it" comment out of the way.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 2:58PM
@1- how about not.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 2:58PM
You know, Domestic violence is sooooooo much funnier when Madoff is somehow involved...
Posted by merkin capital partners , Feb 02, 2009 2:58PM
Reporter: What do you tell your wife now that she has 2 black eyes?
Judge: Nothing, I already told her twice.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:00PM
Reporter: What do you do when the dishwasher breaks?
Judge: Tell the bitch to get back to work.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:04PM
"Bloomberg is reporting that there is a high chance that Peck may be suspended by the chief bankruptcy judge or the top judge in his federal circuit, according to Nancy Rapaport, a law professor at UNLV (I thought they only had basketball professors there). "If judicially disciplined, his cases will be reassigned." This can not be good for parties involved in the Lehman Chapter 11 case as it would likely take any new judge months to just get up to speed on this monster of a bankruptcy case."
No matter what, Lehman creditors keep getting screwed.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:05PM
Do not hit anyone.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:08PM
No house arrest for the judge. No bail.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:08PM
Like the Madoff case really needed additional unintentional comedy. Yikes.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:11PM
When is Ruthie going to crack Bernie in the head? His 24/7 presence must really be getting under her skin by now
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:13PM
Let's face it he got bitch slapped by his wife. What a pussy
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:18PM
Too Jason Kidd didn't Jayson Williams
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:28PM
Why was he arrested? She hit him first.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:31PM
What was she doing in Hamptons late in the night? Fishing or helping the homeless?
Posted by StupidEquityGuy , Feb 02, 2009 3:34PM
"She slapped me," the judge told police, according to the sources. "I put the ladder down. I slapped her. Then we started slapping each other back and forth."
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:40PM
@15 sounds like an episode of the "Three Stooges"
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:45PM
If you hit/slap a hormone-treated, feminine apparel wearing male trader at SAC is that the same as hitting a woman? Should we ask the judge?
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:46PM
@16 he continues...
"then she attempted to gouge my eyes, which i deftly avoided through the use of the famed 'hand on nose' defense"
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:49PM
too hit, not to hit
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:54PM
I'd hit it
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 3:56PM
"i have hit it!" - jimmy peck
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:02PM
Not to be too paranoid, but I would bet that either Madoff or Lehman sympathizers were involved in this...who phoned the police? Certainly not the judge, maybe his wife is getting paid? The doorman? Neighboring Madoffs?
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:05PM
Did they have some extremely hot
make-up sex afterward?
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:26PM
Did he at least pay his taxes?
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:31PM
NO TOUCHING!
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:33PM
She slaps him and then has the nerve to call the cops on him? What a bitch.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 4:48PM
Too Alec - couldn't Baldwin
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 5:06PM
I am going with the Judge on this one. If he doesn't know why he hit her...she does.She probably had it coming.
Posted by BruceWaynesWorld , Feb 02, 2009 5:26PM
What does the abused wife do when she gets out of the hospital?
The dishes if she knows whats good for her.
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 5:29PM
you're a douche @29
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 5:52PM
James Peck, "Honey you invested all of our money with who?"
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 8:24PM
"Yes, it's true. This man has no dick."
Posted by guest , Feb 02, 2009 10:05PM
"The bitch set me up."
- Marion Barry
Posted by guest , Feb 03, 2009 8:44AM
There are over 350,000 battered women in this country.
...and to think all this time I've been eating them plain.
-Ike Turner
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:40AM
Did she ask to see the storage facility?