No judge in Hillsborough is willing to hear it. They all have a conflict. Every judge in Tampa knows Pisano or Ficarrotta or the other judges in this episode, Bob Bonanno and Greg Holder. The soap opera began last month when Bonanno, one of Alvarez's closest friends, was caught in the dark snooping in Holder's office. Holder was out of town.
Holder is no friend to either man.
In fact, he'd told the governor more or less that Alvarez was under investigation by the Judicial Qualifications Commission for allegedly hiding the sexual antics of still another judge, now mercifully gone, Ed Ward. Then it came to light that the judicial commission was also nosing around about Ficarrotta's affair, by then over, with Pisano. Pisano didn't want hush money. She just wanted to keep her job, and she was afraid. So she went to a lawyer, who got her to write down the chronicle of her affair.