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Judge nailed for trying to bribe Fed with fizzy water (aka Bud Light)

Attempt to steal wife's text messages gets all watered down

A judge in North Carolina, US, has been convicted for attempting to bribe an FBI agent to pull his wife's text messages in exchange for two cases of flavored water – aka American light beer.

Judge Arnold Jones II was found guilty of three charges related to his attempt convince an officer working with the FBI gang-busting task force to use his security clearance to obtain copies of messages sent between Jones' wife and another man.

The Charlotte News and Observer reports Jones, a Superior Court judge in Wayne County, offered to purchase officer Matthew Miller, who was also a local sherrif's deputy, two cases of Bud Light in exchange for copies of texts between the two numbers.

The two men later met up, at which point Jones gave Miller $100 instead of the promised suds in exchange for what turned out to be a blank disk Jones found to be as empty as the calories in the bartered beer.

Jones was later arrested in his home and charged with counts of paying a bribe to a public official, promising and paying a gratuity to a public official and corruptly attempting to influence an official proceeding.

An appeal in the case will be heard next month. ®

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