In another case last year, Richard D. Emery, another commission member, wrote that it was "inexplicable" that the commission had left in office a nonlawyer town justice in Clinton County, in northern New York, who, the commission found, had fixed a ticket for a son of his boss in another job, and handled cases involving his own nephews.
"If he can fix a murder, I can fix a ticket" was the prevailing attitude, Frazier said.
Various methods for fixing a ticket emerged in wiretapped conversations.
Mr. Mullins, in claiming that the ticket-fixing did not qualify as corruption, said he had never heard of an officer's taking a bribe in exchange for fixing a ticket.
The ticket-fixing investigation began when a wiretap of a pay phone outside a barber shop turned up a conversation in which someone called a police officer, who was a relative, for help in fixing a ticket that a third relative had received, said one person briefed on the matter.
By age 16 or 17, according to Mr. von Hoffman, Cohn thought nothing of calling a police precinct to fix a speeding ticket for one of his high school teachers.
Fixed – The easiest way to fix a parking ticket.
The New Yorker, October 3 , 1931P. 72 Man asks his friend to do a small favor for him and fix up a ticket he got for reckless driving.
By George Cecil Cowing The New Yorker, October 3 , 1931P. 72 Man asks his friend to do a small favor for him and fix up a ticket he got for reckless driving.
