The court clerk who gave Superior Court Judge Robert “Mack” Crawford more than $15,000 from the Pike County court registry in 2017 contradicted the judge’s testimony Monday in an ethics hearing convened by the state judicial watchdog agency.

Pike County Superior Court Clerk Cynthia Williams testified at Crawford’s ethics hearing that for eight years she talked occasionally with Crawford about locating two of his former clients to return $15,675.62  languishing in the court registry. Crawford—who was in private practice until his 2010 appointment to the Griffin Circuit Superior Court bench—deposited the money in the registry in 2002 after securing the funds from clients he represented in a suit to redeem property sold at a county tax foreclosure sale.

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