Spell-check yourself!
B’klyn Dems to judicial candidate:
This Brooklyn Civil Court judge should worry about being found guilty of bad grammar.
Jill Epstein, a top candidate for a better-paying state judgeship, recently submitted an embarrassing, error-filled cover letter to Brooklyn Democratic officials overseeing the nomination process.
In it, the 63-year-old jurist boasted that her 38-plus years of legal experience includes currently working as a “Civil Corut [sic] Judge” and past employment as a “Prinvipal [sic] Law Clerk.”
“This might be the worst letter I have ever received from a judicial candidate,” quipped Brooklyn Democratic District Leader Douglas Schneider, while posting part of Epstein’s application Tuesday on Facebook.
“I can excuse a typo or 2, but this has at least 8 (and that’s being lenient) … How can I consider you if you can’t even proofread your letter to me? And this person is actually a leading candidate!”
Although Schneider removed all traces of the letter writer’s identity in his post, sources outed the spell check-challenged judicial candidate to The Post as Epstein.
They also provided an email she sent to party officials Wednesday, where she expressed “many apologies and much embarrassment” for accidentally providing an “unedited draft” of her cover letter. The email included a properly edited version of Epstein’s June 24 letter seeking consideration for one of 10 vacant state Supreme Court seats up for grabs in Brooklyn this year.
“This is comical — just like the entire judicial selection process,” said a longtime Brooklyn Democratic insider.
State Supreme Court justices earn $210,900 yearly. Since 2019, Epstein has earned $196,200 annually as a Civil Court judge.
The Kings County Democratic Committee — which is dealing with severe infighting over party leadership — will hold a judicial convention next month to nominate 10 candidates for the open justice seats, which carry 14-year terms. When asked whether she’s concerned her grammatically challenged letter will hurt her chances, Epstein said she hopes the nominating committee understands “we all make mistakes.”