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My daughter showed up on my porch at midnight, clutching her pregnant belly, her designer dress torn. “He said the police work for him, Mom,” she sobbed, bruised and barefoot. My phone buzzed with a text from my son-in-law: Send her back, or I’ll make sure you both lose everything. I wiped her tears and poured myself a glass of scotch. He thought he owned the local precinct. He had no idea I was the federal judge who just signed the wiretap warrant for his entire syndicate. – True Stories

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reporters and shouted, “This is political! I’m being framed!”

Then he saw me.

I was standing across the street beside the federal prosecutor, not presiding, not pretending neutrality where my child was concerned. I had already disclosed the conflict and stepped aside from the case the moment Lena became a victim witness. That was the difference between continue reading …

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