Also, the reviews should not be limited to criminal matters. How many parties in civil cases might have been cheated before Camp? My guess? A whole bunch of them.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Camp went to great lengths to protect Sherry Ann Ramos, the stripper who proved to be an FBI informant. Reports the AJC:
Some of that corroboration may come from Ramos' former landlord, who told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution in an interview in November that the judge had bullied her in a dispute over the lease but said the judge sounded surprised and angry when she told him that Ramos, who is white, was living with a black man.
Katrina Hardy, who rented her Union City condo to Camp's girlfriend, said she was considering legal action against Ramos when she got a call from Camp, telling her he was a judge and she should back off. Hardy said his tone changed when she told the judge about his girlfriend's living arrangement.
"I said, "You know she's living with a black man,"' Hardy recalled. "And he said, "What!"
Yates said there was evidence the judge consulted Ramos about sentences he was going to impose.
As ugly as the Camp story is, we doubt that it is all that unusual. We suspect there are numerous judges around the country, at both the state and federal levels, who are dysfunctional and downright dangerous. Like Camp, these bad actors know they answer to pretty much no one, and that makes them stunningly arrogant.
Jack Camp is not a lone bad apple. Others like him just have not been caught yet.
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