A NEW York City judge has been fired from his job and fined $5500 after accepting popcorn as a buy-off from a snack food delivery driver with too many parking tickets.

Alan Rubin, employed as an administrative law judge by the city's finance department since May 2004, got the heave-ho because he accepted six to eight bags of free popcorn a year earlier from a food-delivery driver whose tickets he had dismissed, the New York Postreported.



Mr Rubin agreed to pay a $2500 fine to the Conflicts of Interest Board after his firing in June 2009 - making this the most expensive snack of his life.



Sources said Mr Rubin was tripped up when he brought some of his bounty into the office to share with coworkers. One of them gave him up.



Read more at the New York Post.

Originally published asJudge fired over poporn for parking ticket