Jack Tarpley Camp, Jr. (R-Gangsta Judge, Ga.)
Sex, Drugs, Guns, Ho’s & Mo’
Claims to fame: United States Federal Judge nominated by President (& fellow Conservative Babylonian) Ronald Reagan in 1987 & confirmed (thanks to pressure by fellow Conservative Babylonian Strom Thurmond) by U.S. Senate in 1988; Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, 2006-08; Ford Foundation fellow; Citadel graduate; Vietnam Vet (U.S. Army, 1967-70; U.S. Army Reserve, 1970-1986); lawyer; husband; adulterer; john; cokehead; pothead; pillhead; gun nut; hypocrite to the nth degree; old fool
Moral apex: Arrested October 1, 2010, by FBI agents in the parking lot of an Atlanta strip club.
He was arrested for going to a strip club? Oh, heavens, no! He was arrested for carrying cocaine, marijuana and Roxycodone (a painkiller).
Which he bought from an undercover agent.
For a stripper.
Who had a felony drug record.
Whom he gave money to buy drugs.
And whom he paid for sex.
Which would make the stripper a hooker. Except that the stripper was also an informant for the FBI.
And: It’s not lost on anybody who’s ever followed Camp’s career that he sent a lot of perps up the river for — you guessed it — drug and prostitution offenses:
In 2008, the judge sentenced former professional wrestler Harrison “Hardbody” Norris to life in prison for leading a sex-trafficking ring. …Later that year, Camp sentenced former state Rep. Ron Sailor to five years and three months in prison when the politician pleaded guilty to money laundering funds that he believed came from cocaine sales. Actually, Sailor had been negotiating with an undercover agent. But Camp told Sailor he “would have done a great deal of damage to your community” had it been a real drug dealer, according to the Journal-Constitution.
And in 2009, Camp sentenced Dr. Phil Astin, the doctor of the professional wrestler Chris Benoit, to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to prescribing painkillers to known addicts. …
— AOLNews
October 6, 2010
Anything else? While all this was going, he was carrying two loaded handguns in his car. As well as some “blue pills.” And a “white powdery substance.”
Blue pills? Viagra? We didn’t say that.
Anything else? Well, he was stupid enough to admit to doing drugs with the hooker— er, stripper— informant— whatever Sherry Ann Ramos wants to be called — “on several occasions.”
Plea: Guilty to two counts of unlawful possession of controlled substances and one count of conversion of government property.
“Conversion of government property”…? Oh, we forget to mention: He also ripped off a laptop that belonged to the court and gave it to the stripper.
What about the hooker— er, stripper? We don’t know — except we do know that’s one of the things Camp wasn’t charged with: paying the stripper for sex.
Why not? Apparently, because “engaging the services of a prostitute” is a state crime, not a federal one. (We guess Georgia could still charge him with being a john if it wanted to.)
What’s next: Sentencing, scheduled March 4, 2011. Camp faces up to four years in the slammer.
And: There’s speculation that “some of his sentences could be challenged and perhaps even overturned.”
Fun fact: “Camp’s arrest set up an unusual domino effect in the federal courthouse. The district’s federal judges all recused themselves, so Magistrate Judge Charles S. Coody of Alabama was brought in to hear the case. Federal prosecutors from Washington also flew in to handle the government’s arguments.” — HuffPo
Memorable quotes:
“All you need to know about this next man is that he graduated from the finest military institution in the country.”— Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.)
during Camp’s confirmation hearing, 1988“I’ll watch your back anytime. … I not only have my little pistol, I’ve got my big pistol so, uh, we’ll take care of any problems that come up.”
— Jack Camp to the hooker
“It’s not about Judge Camp being a judge. It is about Judge Camp being a husband and whether he has fulfilled those duties.”
— Camp’s lawyer
Memorable observations:
A graduate of The Citadel, one of the nation’s top military colleges, Judge Camp isn’t your typical drug defendant. He’s an old white dude. Who wears suspenders.— David Lat
Above the Law
October 4, 2010We thought the Houston area could cruise for a while with the title of World’s Dumbest, Horniest Federal Judge.
U.S. District Judge Sam Kent of Galveston made heroic efforts to set the bar high, what with all his after-lunch drunken groping of female staffers.
Listen up, Kent, from your federal prison cell — you have been pwned.
— Richard Connelly
Houston Press
October 5, 2010He’d been a tough sentencer.
— NYU law professor Rachel Barkow
to AOL News
October 6, 2010Georgia Federal Judge Jack T Camp was a hard liner, who regularly dropped the hammer on others for seemingly minor offenses. now we see his ass strung up in his own spider web of Guns, Ass, Drugs and Lapdances. …
We hope it was worth it judgie, cause you gon pay for this dance for a while. …
He was on the bench when he was throwing folks in the slam for drugs, while he was hittin it himself.. with a Skripper.. Damn Reaganite.
— BadGalsRadio.com
October 12, 2010Well, at least we can say this much about Atlanta federal judge Jack Camp: It sure looks like he went out with a bang.
— Ashby Jones
Wall Street Journal Law Blog
November 18, 2010Suggested Bible reading for Mr. Camp:
And in all thine abominations and thy whoredoms thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, when thou wast naked and bare, and wast polluted in thy blood.— Ezekiel 16:22
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