Former Arkansas judge charged with soliciting sex from a defendant's girlfriend in order to make the charges against her boyfriend move quicker through the judicial system, DOJ says.
In this photo illustration, the United States Department of Justice logo is displayed on a smartphone screen with a United States flag in the background.A former Monroe County, Arkansas, judge was charged Thursday with soliciting sex from a defendant's girlfriend in order to make the charges against her boyfriend move quicker through the judicial system, according to the Department of Justice.
In April 2022, Thomas Carruth "allegedly solicited sex from the girlfriend of a defendant in exchange for expediting that defendant's trial date," a press release from the Justice Department. The 63-year-old elected county judge allegedly then lied to the FBI when questioned about it. Carruth is charged by indictment with three counts of honest services wire fraud, three counts of using a facility in interstate commerce in furtherance of unlawful activity, one count of bribery, one count of making false statements and one count of obstruction of justice. If convicted, Carruth could face up to 20 years in prison on the top counts.
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