New York – The federal judge overseeing the liquidation of Bernard Madoff’s collapsed investment firm was arrested for smacking his wife around in their Park Avenue apartment, sources said yesterday.
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Bankruptcy Judge James Peck, 63, was charged with attempted second-degree assault and harassment following a Saturday-afternoon tiff with his wife, Judith, 64.
Peck, who’s also handling the massive bankruptcy of failed Wall Street giant Lehman Bros., was released on his own recognizance.
“We’ve been married 42 years,” the judge told cops who arrived at the tony building following a 911 call by Judith Peck, according to the sources.
“We love each other very much. I have never hit her before. This was not about tonight.”
Judith Peck, who complained of pain and suffered some bruising to the jaw, was taken to New York Presbyterian Hospital for evaluation.
Neither the judge nor his wife answered a message left for them at the front desk of their building.
Cops arrived to find Peck and his wife in separate rooms, the sources said.
Peck allegedly told police that the blowup began over his wife’s late arrival at the house from the Hamptons, where she’d been earlier in the week.
Peck said his wife slapped him first, as he was taking a ladder out of his closet.
“She slapped me,” the judge told police, according to the sources. “I put the ladder down. I slapped her. Then we started slapping each other back and forth.”
Remorse apparently set in quickly for Peck, when he told cops, “I will never do it again. We need to go to counseling.”
oy vey
what a comedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sick. and he is a judge for other people. all you need is a papper and your good to go.
This Ganev has mazel
why is this relevant? Is this a din torah where the batei din would be pasul? PS I still dont get why a lure of %5 or even %8 is a chidush to attract ‘investors’ ?
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kimdoo
Oy Vay, this is bishes….
Why did this have to be made public?
The world is upside down
I think they should both stop slapping each other and start slapping Bernie instead.
he should have hit madoff
Well, the problem is that women think they can hit their husbands because they are female. She learnt pretty fast about that trutrh.
So there is justice after all! Does he still get to decide Bernie’s fate?
Funny how low class people are found in high class scoiety.
#8, What’s worng with you? You have to be really screwed up if you have to lay a hand on your wife. the same is true for a wife laying a hand on her husband. Work it out like adults, or get divorced. Also, the cops will always blame the husband.
My former coworker is a big guy. His wife has serious issues and she has physically assaulted him on several occassions. He has to run to the police station first because if he waits for the police to show up at his house, he gets arrested – even though he never put a finger on his wife. They won’t believe him unless he shows up bloody. Why they are still married is another story.
I think that the principle should send them both home for a couple of days!
Hear ye! Hear ye! In merrie olde england the law was that man may not hit his wife after 10pm (the kvitcherei would disturb the sleep of the law abiding citizens), and not with a stick thicker than a man’s thumb.
No wonder they had an empire that stretched all over the world, they kept seider in the vyber shul
here comes the judge
At least the judge was not an ehrleche yid…otherwise, we seem to have a monopoly on the headlines these days and not in a good way.
unlike madoff she probably had ‘kosher fardeent’ the petch she got.
I suspect substance abuse for one or the other, or both of them. So she was late coming home – have you ever made the drive from the Hamptons into the city on a weekend? He was probably sitting at home, kvetching to himself and having one drink after another. So, of course, when she got home, he was ready to hit her. A “time out” for both of them.
For the record the judge in the Madoff case is The Honorable Burton Lifland Shilita
He is a nice guy would not hurt a fly Good Judge.I clerked for him.
will he update his bio for the court to show the fliskes?
Men just don’t learn their lesso not to hit and to simply talk back. Ladies love the respect of their husband and if you were smart you wouldn’t hit her back because then she will feel so bad that she hit you that it would be more upsetting to her than simply hitting her back.
BS”D I’m going through same garbage…wifes had me arrested 3 times here in brooklyn on trumped up nonsense. She’s taken BAD advice from her evil family and friends and b”h emes prevails. she refused b”d even though I offered her everything. Her darling courts are working out amazing for me as everythings been thrown out and they gave ME (the dad!) kids b”h! and she’s getting jack! im going after her for support. the case continues…
If she hit him first, why was he arrested and not her? This is blatant sexism.
shame on you, judge.