As an immigrant from the USSR brought the Brooklyn bribe judge to clear water and sued her children back - ForumDaily
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As an immigrant from the USSR, brought to light the Brooklyn bribe judge and sued her children back

Some time ago, my family violence notewhen the husband is a US citizen and the wife is from the former USSR. I decided to write it because I often received requests for help from women who suffered moral and physical violence from their husbands, but did not divorce, fearing that they would not receive a green card.

The note came out. And I continued to receive requests for help, but also of a new kind - “My husband wants a divorce (he cheats and demands to come to terms with me/ mocks me and I’m afraid to go to the police/ mocks me and doesn’t allow me to file for divorce...) and says that if I just If I say anything, I’ll be left with nothing, because his lawyer has his own “pocket” judge. And the children will be taken away, and they will also be thrown out of the country (they are already preparing documents for my deportation).

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I won’t hide it, at the moments when I read this, I freeze in amazement, but not because I realize the depth of universal injustice, but for a completely different reason - ladies, my dear readers, how can you live in the USA and be so ignorant of your rights? After all, many of you, those who want my support, know English well and are still afraid of both your husband and his lawyer, and still do not know how to protect yourself. Well, what exactly are you afraid of being legally married? What kind of deportation are you talking to me about? Yes, there is corruption in American courts. You only need to read one book by Michael Vecchione, “Crooked Brooklyn,” which he co-wrote with Jerry Schmetter, to understand that the situation is quite sad. But after all, it is not just possible to fight this, but also definitely! And you are not bored, and we still live in the United States, and not where there is complete lawlessness. And it makes no sense to be afraid of some kind of pocket ruler of destinies, on whom you can also find justice.

You don’t have to look far for an example - below is a story about one such “arbiter of destinies” in a robe - Judge Garzonwho famously took away the children of their ex-wives, deprived them of their property, and all this was in favor of their husbands.

However, it never came to deportation. And our former compatriot brought him to light. As a result, the “arbiter of destinies,” at almost eighty years old and diagnosed with cancer, went to prison, served time, lost all titles and benefits... This story thundered throughout the country. And although Judge Garzon died two years ago, judging by the messages that constantly come to my mail, it is his ghost that still frightens gullible and intimidated wives. Those wives are so overwhelmed that they are afraid to open Google and check - is it so easy to buy a judge in New York, is it so easy to deport a woman who lived with you in a legal marriage (!), is it necessary to immediately accept the court verdict and so on, on, on. .

Frida and her children

Gerald Phillip "Jerry" Garson was born in 1932. He received a good legal education - in the early 60s he graduated from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Then almost immediately he opened his own law office, and his business took off. True, in 1984 he was accused of trying to bribe a judge - he gave him gifts, took him on vacation and even shared money. But the scandal was quickly forgotten. Another thirteen years passed and Garson himself became a judge. A respected position, but with a fairly modest salary - no more than 140 thousand per year. He was involved in the family affairs of Brooklynites, and by the time a criminal case was opened against him, he had already made more than a thousand decisions on alimony for children and wives, as well as on who the children should stay with after a divorce.

The lawyers working with him were absolutely delighted, which was confirmed by research: in the United States there is a practice of anonymous surveys when it is the defense lawyers who must evaluate the judge. Opinions about Garson were almost always beyond praise. In 2001, he received a standing ovation from New York feminists for his ruling in a divorce case involving a religious Jewish family. The husband refused to give his wife a get - a special document issued during a divorce in Judaism, and Judge Garson decided that for this refusal he must pay alimony to his ex-wife in the amount of five hundred dollars a week for the rest of his life (I hope this decision was not revised after that how Garson ended up in the dock). I myself learned about this story from a very close friend, laughing, he said that, apparently, he was the last husband in Garson’s career, who was honestly divorced from his wife - the children remained with their mother.

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Either the judge did not have enough salary, or he really decided that the children and their father would be no worse off, even if their mother was almost completely deprived of visits with them... One way or another, at some point Gerald Garson began to make verdicts only in favor of husbands. And he endured them for several years. And everything might have continued further if not for Frida Khanimov, an attractive blonde who was born in the USSR, repatriated to Israel, and later moved to the USA. In America she married Yuri Khanimov. During the marriage, the couple had three children, and then the husband left without leaving the family a dime. Frida filed for divorce. As a result, Judge Garzon ordered the children to live with their father, and left Frida not only without children, but also without property. Quite quickly after the divorce, Frida got married, but all this time she fought to get her kids back. In October 2002, already five months pregnant, Frida accidentally learned that the judge had been bribed by her ex-husband’s lawyer, Siminovsky. He gave him a bribe through a certain Nissim Elmann. Frida turned out to be a heroic mother - when she found out what happened, she immediately called the district attorney's hotline. She was given an appointment - without the slightest hesitation, she agreed to put on a microphone and went to a meeting with Ehlmann to offer him a bribe for a different decision of the judge. Ehlmann told her that her ex-husband Yuri paid so well that it was no longer possible to get a different decision from the judge.

The wiretapping and surveillance continued for some time, and in April 2003, Judge Garzon was arrested. Soon, lawyer Siminovsky was also arrested. Among the accusations against him was confidential communication with Judge Garzón, which is prohibited by law: if a judge is considering a case, he can meet with a lawyer in the case only if a defense attorney from the opposite side is present at the meeting. Siminovsky also entertained the judge with dinners, paid his bills, gave him money directly... even a box of expensive Cuban cigars that Garzon received from his lawyer, and that was marked as a “bribe.” Ultimately, Siminovsky received “only” a year in prison. It was a kind of gift to him for admitting guilt and agreeing to cooperate with the prosecutor's office. He also lost his law license forever. By the way, two clients of this lawyer were sentenced to hundreds of hours of community service and several months in prison for transferring money for the judge through Ehlmann - these are the very husbands who have the very lawyer who has the judge in his pocket... By the way, the convicted clients did not even know whether their money reached the judge or not. Their cases were later reviewed and custody of the children was given to their ex-wives. By the way, in total, New York courts had to review fifty divorce cases; as a result, only in three cases were Garson’s decisions not changed.

For three years, Gerald Garson and his lawyers tried to reject the accusations. During this time, he was diagnosed with cancer, he went through a complex operation, and the investigators continued and continued to find new episodes. But the judge did not give up, unlike his assistant Nissim Elmann, who pleaded guilty to seven criminal and six administrative crimes in February 2005. During the investigation, it turned out that he himself, the seller of electronics, met the judge when he divorced his own wife. At trial, Nissim admitted that he handed over twenty-four thousand dollars to Judge Garzon for Siminovsky. As a result, Elmann was sentenced to a decent prison term, and he was later denied parole.

In April 2007, Gerald Garzon was convicted of third-degree bribery. And even though the jury acquitted him on some counts, this did not particularly improve the situation - on June 2007, XNUMX, Judge Berry handed down as many as three sentences in the Garson case, resulting in a total sentence of up to ten years of freedom. Gerald Garson, hearing about this, shouted to the whole room that he was very sorry. His lawyers begged for leniency, citing the defendant’s illnesses - alcoholism, bladder cancer and others. But Judge Berry rejected all requests for leniency, noting that the people of Brooklyn deserved more than such a judge. “You are not some dumbass, you are a smart person with a decent education.”

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True, many at that moment felt sincerely sorry for Garson. Added to his health problems was grief - his granddaughter died, one of the adult sons of the former judge was mentally retarded and had to be taken care of. But the verdict remained in force. Garzon completed a mandatory detoxification program and arrived at the New York State Supreme Court in Brooklyn on June 28, 2007 to begin serving his sentence. He was sent to prison, which is located almost two hundred miles from New York, where he remained for the next two years. Garson was released home in December 2009, considering that at such an advanced age parole was appropriate. True, on the condition that until June 2017 he does not cooperate with any law firm, does not drink alcohol and undergoes a special check with an officer. Upon his release, Garzón attempted to appeal his conviction, but the Supreme Court rejected all of his appeals.

Gerald Phillip "Jerry" Garson died in February 2016 of the year. His case was perhaps the loudest in a series of such cases. Both lawyers and other judges made their findings. But husbands, who are afraid of such “decision makers” wives, apparently not. And in vain. To bring such and such a lawyer to the clean water, and such a judge, as life has shown, is not so difficult. Even a fourth child pregnant woman who has been taken to the extreme can do this.

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