An upstate New York judge has agreed to be censured for failing to address $15,000 worth of identified funds left languishing in his court’s account, some of which sat there for seven years after the New York State Comptroller raised the issue in an audit.
There is no evidence that James McDermott, a Chester Town Court justice who has been on the bench since 1998 and who is not an attorney, stole or lost the funds, according to a news release from the Commission on Judicial Conduct. Additionally, some of the surplus funds accumulated under previous judges.
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