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A judge in Humboldt County, California, is facing an ethics complaint that accuses him of calling a public defender “Jewboy” and having “pantomimed something similar to a lap dance” on the wife of a different public defender.
An elected judge from northern California claims politics are behind “salacious and false” allegations
Greg Kreis, an elected judge in California, has been hit with a massive complaint alleging a rash of inappropriate behavior.
The allegations in the notice of proceedings include a retread of the fallout from a 2019 boat party on Lake Shasta – a party that resulted in a lawsuit – where Kreis allegedly called former Deputy Public Defender Rory Kalin a “Jew-boy” before pushing him in the lake, and hearing cases Kalin litigated days later. However, the notice included a far greater scope of complaints, including a sexually inappropriate incident with Kreis’ former friend, attorney Joanne Carter
