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Judge Admonished For Trying To Influence Mail Carrier's Parking Fine In Westchester Judge Admonished For Trying To Influence Mail Carrier's Parking Fine In Westchester
Judge Admonished For Trying To Influence Mail Carrier's Parking Fine In Westchester A Northern Westchester town court justice has been admonished for attempting to influence a fellow judge to be lenient with his mail carrier's parking ticket fine, officials announced.  The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct announced on Monday, Oct. 23 that Benjamin L.F. Leavitt, who serves as a Justice of the Ossining Town Court, was admonished for trying to get his colleague to go easy on his mail carrier, who had received parking tickets unrelated to her job with the postal service.  According to the Commission, in September 2021, Leavitt was approached by his…

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