A former upstate New York justice who did prison time for fixing cases in exchange for cash and sexual favors was locked up again after he allegedly threatened to burn down a polling place on Tuesday.
Disgraced ex-judge Paul Lamson, 69, onetime village justice in Fowler, was charged with making a terroristic threat after telling election officials at town offices that he would return with a gun and burn the building down, state troopers said in a press release.
Police said Lamson, who was released from state prison in 2019 after two years behind bars, walked into the Town of Fowler Offices shortly after 6:30 am Tuesday to cast his vote, but flipped out when he was told he couldn’t vote and was turned away.
New York allows ex-cons to vote but police said the former judge hadn’t re-registered after leaving prison.
“He became irate and started making threatening remarks such as burning the place down and returning with a firearm,” state police said in a statement. “The male fled the scene.”
Lamson, who pleaded guilty to bribe receiving and official misconduct in 2017 for taking bribes from defendants, was arrested near the scene, WWNY-TV said.
He was arraigned later in the day and ordered held on $250,000 bail, state police said.
It was unclear if Lamson was still being held in jail on Wednesday and the St. Lawrence County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to a request for information from The Post.
