Bill Cosby’s wife goes up against the judge
Days before a court hearing that could send her famous husband to prison, Bill Cosby’s wife intensified her attacks on a judge she has called “arrogant,” “corrupt” and “unethical,” and said the family had filed an ethics complaint and hired a former FBI agent to investigate him.
Camille Cosby accused trial judge Steven T. O’Neill of harbouring a secret bias in her husband’s sex assault case because of his supposed grudge with a key pretrial witness. She travelled to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the state capital, with a Los Angeles lawyer on Monday to file a complaint with the state’s Judicial Conduct Board.
The move comes a week to the day before O’Neill is set to sentence the 81-year-old actor for drugging and molesting a woman friend at his estate near Philadelphia in 2004. “I am filing this complaint against Judge ... O’Neill on behalf of not only Bill Cosby but all citizens who may one day find themselves in his corrupt courtroom,” Camille Cosby said in a statement. “The judge must be held accountable for his unethical behaviour.”