{"id":9785,"date":"2009-02-03T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"lehman-judge-james-peck-charged-with-hitting-wife-gets-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/02\/2009\/lehman-judge-james-peck-charged-with-hitting-wife-gets-lawyer.html","title":{"rendered":"Lehman judge, James Peck, charged with hitting wife gets lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A federal judge charged with slapping his wife hired a big shot defense attorney as he faces a misdemeanor charge that could land him in the clink.<\/p>\n<p>James Peck, 63, the bankruptcy judge overseeing the breakup of Lehman Brothers, hired Barry Bohrer, a prominent criminal defense lawyer whose clients have included Sam Israel, the hedge fund swindler who went on the lam last summer after faking his own suicide to avoid a 20-year jail term. <\/p>\n<p>Peck, who was briefly assigned to handle the Bernard Madoff bankruptcy until he recused himself in December, told cops when they came to his Park Ave. apartment Saturday afternoon that &quot;I was defending myself.&quot; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2009\/02\/02\/2009-02-02_lehman_judge_james_peck_charged_with_hit.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Daily News &#8211; A federal judge charged with slapping his wife hired a big shot defense attorney as he faces a misdemeanor charge that could land him in the clink. James Peck, 63, the bankruptcy judge overseeing the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[6853,6847,4331,6849,6848,6852,6845,6850,6199,1226,4718,6846,4549,4551,6851,5784,4766,4553],"class_list":["post-9785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-apartment","tag-bankruptcy-judge","tag-bernard-madoff","tag-bohrer","tag-clink","tag-cops","tag-criminal-defense-lawyer","tag-defense-attorney","tag-federal-judge","tag-israel","tag-lehman-brothers","tag-misdemeanor-charge","tag-new-york-daily-news","tag-park-ave","tag-saturday-afternoon","tag-suicide","tag-swindler","tag-york-daily-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}