The state Supreme Court has disbarred a lawyer who formerly served as a municipal judge in Monmouth County, criminally convicted of ticket-fixing and funneling funds to nine municipalities in an effort to curry favor from local officials.
Richard Thompson, of Middletown, admitted in New Jersey in 1982, was disbarred effective immediately in an order issued Thursday. Thompson previously pleaded guilty to criminal charges resulting from the ticket-fixing scheme that ran from 2010 through most of 2015. He admitted to falsifying court records, levying illegitimate fines, and other wrongs, court papers and reports said.
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