NEW YORK (1010 WINS) -- Officials on Thursday announced that a Long Island judge resigned after being accused of shoving a lawyer and calling another "anti-Semitic" for not offering to give her husband’s associate a plea deal.
"The allegations against Judge Fishkin were multiple and serious, particularly the complaints that she shoved one prosecutor and derogated another who would not show favoritism to an associate of the judge’s husband," commission administrator Robert Tembeckjian said in a release. "Under the circumstances, Judge Fishkin’s departure from office is appropriate."
Fishkin resigned on May 6 after the Commission on Judicial Conduct told her it was investigating the claims. She had been the head of the Harbor Village court since 1996.
According to the CJC, Judge Ellen Fishkin allegedly shoved a Suffolk County prosecutor outside her courtroom, which was in session and at the time, filled with people.
Fishkin also allegedly called another prosecutor “anti-Semitic” for refusing to offer a plea deal to a friend of her husband in a traffic violation case, the commission added.
The judge was also accused of inappropriately pausing recordings of hearings, taking pleas without a prosecutor present, and other misbehaviors while on the bench.
Fishkin agreed to never seek or accept a judicial post again in a May 17 agreement with the commission that was finalized last week.