Las Vegas NowI-Team: Judge Halverson's Aide Responds to Allegations

I-Team: Judge Halverson's Aide Responds to Allegations

Ileen Spoor was very publicly accused of running a ticket-fixing operation out of her courthouse office. But Friday night -- the former assistant for Judge Elizabeth Halverson is speaking out. 

Ileen Spoor has worked in the Clark County court system for nine years. She says she is a hard worker, does her best at work, and now she just wants to clear her name after allegations which she says are not only false but painful.

"It's been very difficult," said Spoor. Sitting with her attorney in a downtown law firm, Ileen Spoor doesn't deny the past two weeks have been tough.

"The last thing in the world that I would want anyone to think is that I have broken the law in any way," she said.

Spoor has been in the public eye ever since videotape surfaced showing her collecting her personal belongings after she was fired by District Judge Elizabeth Halverson. But the situation got worse when the judge charged Spoor with illegally fixing traffic tickets.

Judge Elizabeth Halverson said in an interview on May 15, "It's in a folder called 'quick-fix reports.' And when you open them up, they while show you each of the tickets. It shows you how it's done."

Spoor responds, "The 'quick fix' was something I titled a folder that I was using for various and assorted papers over the past nine years. And I never thought in a million years that it would cause the upheaval that it has. It was just kind of a private joke that meant absolutely nothing."

But it had e-mails and fax sheets and notes and, yes, tickets. Spoor was asked what she did with those tickets.

"As people would give them to me -- ask me if I could please give them to attorneys for them to set in court. And then when they would get a resolution, they would either call the person who they took care of or they would call me and I would call my friends personally," said Spoor.

Why did she do this? "Just as a favor," responds Spoor. "I knew it was a service that was offered to anyone but I live in Henderson, most of my friends live in Henderson."

Spoor insists she didn't accept money. "No. absolutely not," she said. "I got nothing for this. No, nothing."

Some say that there is a perception problem. Favoritism? "I can see where that would be," said Spoor.

When asked if she was going to continue doing this, she responded, "Yes I am."

Spoor has now filed a lawsuit alleging Judge Halverson defamed her, invaded her privacy, and cast her in false light. Her attorney is James Adams.

"Because we are claiming that what Judge Halverson stated to the public is false, it's defamatory, it injures Ileen's reputation in the community," said Adams.

Spoor says Judge Halverson asked her to come work for her once Halverson took the bench in January. Spoor says she was nothing but a loyal employee -- even witnessing some of the behavior detailed in recent supreme court documents.

The foot rubs and the water being at the right temperature and all of that -- did she witness this?

Spoor admits, "I did. I did. And I tried to put a stop to it, and I was accused of being a defense attorney for the rest of the staff. What are you, their attorney?"

Today Spoor still works inside the Regional Justice Center, rotating among different judges.

Spoor's attorney says Judge Halverson could start to repair the damage by simply making a public apology. The I-Team did put in a call to Judge Halverson's attorney for comment but was told he was not available today.