In December I speculated about the eventual fate of Judge Erin Gall:

My unsupported-by-any-facts guess is that by avoiding a hearing she expects to lose, she preserves some standing with the Courts, and perhaps allows for a very lucrative pension she might otherwise be ineligible for if the appeal failed. There might even be a job offer that’s contingent on her being merely “a retired judge” rather than “a fired judge.”

(Is it too much to suggest such an offer would be with the incoming administration?)

I was wrong about the “incoming administration” part, but, per Mike Goodwin and Patrick Tine of the Times-Union:

Erin P. Gall, the state Supreme Court Justice who initially fought removal from the bench after a July 2022 incident in which she threatened to shoot a group of Black teenagers, has landed a job as an attorney working for Herkimer County.

The disclosure of her new position as an assistant county attorney is included in a filing from the state Commission on Judicial Conduct, which declined to sign onto Gall’s bid to end her appeal of the commission’s recommendation that she should be removed from her $232,600-a-year post.

The supposed new job pays $52,000 a year (for two days a week) and is state pension eligible.

Quite the step down, but it still gives her the ability to retire on New York State’s taxpayers’ dime, and she’s still involved in deciding people’s legal fates.

Though, “I’m a f___ing Assistant County Attorney! That’s how Assistant County Attorney Gall rolls!” doesn’t quite hit the same.