BREAKING NEWS – Rochester, New York – An embattled New York judge, who is on probation for a drunk driving conviction, will receive an $11,700 pay raise this week despite working only one out of the last 214 days. Rochester City Court Judge Leticia Astacio’s salary will be bumped from $175,500 to $187,200 due to a raise all city judges across New York are set to receive, the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle reported. Astacio’s term will end in 2024. Privately, she said in a leaked email, “My plan is going great! At this pace, I should only have to work a total of 14 days before my term ends while I’m living large.” But publicly she had a different story. “It is cost effective for the state to give me a raise,” she began at a press conference. “Because if I had been on the bench, and considering how much the room would’ve been spinning as I slurred my speech and waving a gavel during one of my rulings, I saved the court millions of dollars in appeals. And in some cases, I would’ve been so loaded, that I might have ordered a murderer to deliberate after a trial, and then sentenced the jury after his verdict.”
