Massachusetts Clerk gets screwed in court

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Chelsea, Mass. court official allegedly had sex in courtroom; get screwed BY court, get SCREWED IN COURT!!!February 27, 2009 12:50 PM Email Comments (0) Text size + By Shelley Murphy, Globe StaffAn assistant clerk at the Chelsea District Court was arrested by the FBI this morning on charges that he had sex with an accused prostitute in an empty courtroom while promising to help get a charge against her dismissed.James "Jim" Burke, 41, of Chelsea, made a brief appearance this morning before US Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman, who released him on $10,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to return to federal court March 26 for a probable cause hearing."It's a perversion of the legal system and a gross abuse of power,'' said Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly, head of the US attorney's public corruption unit.The accused prostitute was in the Chelsea court with her lawyer in December trying to get prostitution charges dismissed when she saw Burke and confided to her lawyer that Burke had approached her when she was in the lockup at the courthouse on similar charges in February 2005 and offered to get her case dismissed if she provided sex, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court.The woman said Burke took her into a courtroom, where she performed oral sex on him.After her lawyer alerted the FBI, the woman began cooperating with agents and secretly recorded conversations with Burke, who allegedly acknowledged their earlier sexual encounter and offered to help her get the new charges dismissed if she helped him again, the affidavit says. During a call that was secretly recorded by the FBI on Dec. 8, Burke said they were able to have sex in the courtroom three years [ 2005] earlier "because it was late in the day and the only judge left was not going to go downstairs,' ' the affidavit said.Burke asked the woman if she thought it was "hot" that they had sex in a courtroom and told her, "It's good because it's like it's so bad,'' the affidavit said.Burke also said that there was another room in the courthouse where he had been with someone else, "just hookin' up,'' but he was upset because that person later told someone about the encounter.During a secretly recorded meeting at the court on Dec. 18, Burke, who claimed to have spoken to the district attorney's office, told the woman that she was "all set'' and had gotten off too easy. He suggested they "do it right now,'' but the woman declined.