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Pembroke judge facing state charges resigns

townofpembroke.org

A Genesee County town justice has agreed to leave the bench and never to seek another judicial post. The resignation of Pembroke Town Justice Robert Alexander followed the filing of charges against him by the State Commission on Judicial Conduct. He has been suspended from the post since August 22.

The formal charges say Alexander had not properly supervised the court clerk and money is missing, written receipts are missing in 370 court cases, and cases were not reported or money turned in to Albany in a timely manner.

The judge was also charged with reducing charges in his past service as Corfu village justice so the money went to the village rather than the state treasury.  One of the charges involves the appointment of his daughter as Corfu village court clerk without permission and approval from Albany.

Alexander will leave the bench November 15. He has been a town justice since 2006 and was Corfu village justice from 1989 to April of this year.

Mike Desmond is one of Western New York’s most experienced reporters, having spent nearly a half-century covering the region for newspapers, television stations and public radio. He has been with WBFO and its predecessor, WNED-AM, since 1988. As a reporter for WBFO, he has covered literally thousands of stories involving education, science, business, the environment and many other issues. Mike has been a long-time theater reviewer for a variety of publications and was formerly a part-time reporter for The New York Times.