Judge Deborah Riga has problems (in addition to the fact that she shares her last name with the capital of Latvia). From the AP:

A former Schererville town judge was sentenced to 15 months in federal prison Thursday for pocketing thousands of dollars from her court driving school program.

Judge Philip Simon also ordered during a hearing in U.S. District Court in Hammond that Deborah Riga pay the Town of Schererville and the state about $12,000 in restitution....

She said she took control of the court's Crossroads counseling program and driving school and set up a bank account in which she secretly had an interest.

Through that, she received about $12,000 in payments from the court's defendants. She also stopped paying rent to the town for her courtroom and made the town pay court employees who should have been paid out of the Crossroads program, Riga has said.

A court with an affiliated driving school? Judges who have to pay rent for their courtrooms? State and local courts can be so darn... weird.

Read more about Judge Riga at the Indiana Law Blog. Apparently her 15-month sentence was "substantially less time than she could have received for sending more than 1,000 of her defendants into programs from which she personally profited."

Ind. Courts - More on: "Former Schererville judge to be sentenced today" [Indiana Law Blog]
Judge kept money from court program [AP]