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Acting Chief Administrative Judge Tamiko Amaker testified during a budget hearing that the full-time taxpayer-funded security detail for DiFiore, even after she stepped down last year, was justified due to threats made against the former top jurist’s life.
New York lawmakers on Monday vented frustration at state court officials over a top judge's misleading testimony about the risks justifying former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore's security detail, which she kept after leaving office.
A top New York state judge's testimony defending former Chief Judge Janet DiFiore's unprecedented multimillion-dollar security detail omitted key facts, raising doubts about whether a series of incidents during DiFiore's tenure justified her yearslong armed escort.
JUDICIAL BAIL TRAINING: Senate Deputy Leader Michael Gianaris (D, WFP - Queens) and State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal (D/WFP-Manhattan), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, introduced legislation to require all judges exercising criminal jurisdiction to undergo annual bail training (S.4397), and a bill to close a loophole allowing judges and justices to avoid investigation from the