Boston.com - An assistant clerk at the Chelsea District Court was arrested by the FBI this morning on charges that he had sex with an accused prostitute in an empty courtroom while promising to help get a charge against her dismissed. James "Jim" Burke, 41, of Chelsea, made a brief appearance this morning before US Magistrate Judge Timothy S. Hillman, who released him on $10,000 unsecured bond and ordered him to return to federal court March 26 for a probable cause hearing. "It's a perversion of the legal system and a gross abuse of power,'' said Assistant US Attorney Brian T. Kelly, head of the US attorney's public corruption unit. The accused prostitute was in the Chelsea court with her lawyer in December trying to get prostitution charges dismissed when she saw Burke and confided to her lawyer that Burke had approached her when she was in the lockup at the courthouse on similar charges in February 2005 and offered to get her case dismissed if she provided sex, according to an FBI affidavit filed in federal court. The woman said Burke took her into a courtroom, where she performed oral sex on him. After her lawyer alerted the FBI, the woman began cooperating with agents and secretly recorded conversations with Burke, who allegedly acknowledged their earlier sexual encounter and offered to help her get the new charges dismissed if she helped him again, the affidavit says.  Burke asked the woman if she thought it was "hot" that they had sex in a courtroom and told her, "It's good because it's like it's so bad,'' the affidavit said.

(Now back to our regulary scheduled programming) Whoa, whoa whoa.   Since when does Oral sex count as sex?   I mean what court employee hasn’t been at least blown in a courtroom before?   Disappointing to say the least.    And who the fuck does this prostitute think she is anyway?   Honey this is what you do for a living!  You suck cock!    So spare me the whole indignation routine because this is as fair a deal as it gets.   I mean I wouldn’t be insulted if somebody said they could get a lawsuit dismissed against me if I wrote a nice blog about them.  I mean that’s what I do.   It’s called bartering.    Fucking slut.    You don’t want people throwing trade proposals at you for sex then get out of the prostitution game.   Perversion of justice indeed!