AmherstGuy
Amherst,#2General Comment
Tue, January 13, 2015
Mark Farrell used his drug court for years as a source of personal business. He traveled throuout the country giving lectures on how he ran his court. Of course he was paid for his appearances. He also participated in grant studies of his court, one being done in 2007. He got himself hired as a Research Associate at UB in the Social Research department, and got a private grant for $400,000 to run a 2 year study on his own drug court. I'm still trying to find out how much he paid himself to do the study (he did have 3 other people assisting him).
Town drug courts - from what I have read - are not directly authorized by the state government, and I think are illegal. DO NOT EVER AGREE TO GO INTO DRUG COURT - YOU WILL DO JAIL TIME. I saw one guy go through one year of drug court and at the end WANTED to be put in jail because they would not 1) let him get a full-time job because he had to be in court once a week, 2) owed $2000 in court fees that he had to pay up in full before he could get out. And this was with Judge Klein, but he was following the protocol of Judge Farrell.
Crooks - all of them.