A now-former Alaska judge has been accused of lying to officials about his interactions with suspected sex workers — just weeks after retiring amid unrelated allegations that included arriving late for a court hearing because he was watching a sporting event on TV.
Romano DiBenedetto, 57, was the subject of a 2023 complaint to the Alaska Commission on Judicial Conduct about his "use of Facebook in a way that implied Facebook friendships with apparent female sex workers and was easily publicly viewable," according to a charging document filed last week.
