The additions to the notice of formal proceedings against Gregory Kreis allege that he lied during a KMUD debate about never being disciplined by the Commission on Judicial Performance – the moderator asked the candidates if they ever had been investigated by a state entity such as the bar, and Kreis said he’d never been disciplined – and making a sarcastic remark in a family law hearing the CJP considered “gratuitous.”
One of the Orange County judge's rulings stemmed from remarks San Diego Judge Howard Shore made in previous hearings, such as using the n-word without prompting as part of a thought experiment
Kreis' response, filed on Feb. 23, disputed the bulk of the CJP’s complaint, the bulk of which accused him of hearing cases litigated by his friends, but also includes antisemitism – former Deputy Public Defender Rory Kalin accused Kreis of calling him a “jew boy” and pushing him off a pontoon at a Lake Shasta party in 2019, but the case against the county for wrongful termination was dismissed and the suit against Kreis settled – getting a court clerk fired for speaking about his relationship with the court’s family law facilitator, waving his penis in the face of a sleeping friend, using cocaine and giving an unwanted butt pat.
Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Greg Kreis filed an answer yesterday to the ethics complaint lodged against him, offering a full-throated defense and denial of.