Monday, January 28, 2008

Another part of the Halverson story


The Las Vegas Sun has an article on the incident where Judge Halverson asked a tech guy to hack into her support staff's email. Not new news, but it's still interesting to hear the details from the tech guy himself:

Computer whiz Gregory Klassoff remembers the request he got last spring from a Las Vegas district court judge.

“I was told a file was lost on the computer,” said Klassoff, an employee of Supertech Computers on West Sahara Avenue. He went to see judge Elizabeth Halverson at the Regional Justice Center expecting to help her retrieve the file.

But when he arrived on that day last May, “the job changed,” he told the Sun recently, laughing. “Halverson didn’t want a missing file,” Klassoff said. She sought the e-mails of employees she was at odds with, including those of former executive assistant Ileen Spoor, according to Dorothy Nash Holmes, an attorney working on behalf of the Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline, which later investigated.

Klassoff refused to help. “If you get locked out of your computer, I’m more than happy to get you back in,” he said. “If you want me to break into a computer that’s somebody else’s, I’m not going to do that.”
Judge Halverson remains suspended, but has a motion pending before the Supreme Court to stay the suspension due to the Disciplinary Commission's delay in bringing specific charges against the country's favorite 500 lb jurist.
In other Halverson news, a columnist for the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that Judge Halverson has continued to list endorsements from 2006 as current endorsements on her relection website.
UPDATE: The Halverson4judge website has taken down the 2 year old endorsements after the article in the Review-Journal criticizing the use of outdated and potentially expired endorsements.

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