Retired Fresno County superior court judge Adolfo Corona, 66, faces federal charges including deprivation of the right to bodily integrity under color of law, false statements to hinder law enforcement, and attempted alteration of a document. The indictment accuses him of sexually assaulting a judicial assistant in a courthouse stairwell in March 2024 by penetrating her with his fingers without consent, then leaving the courthouse. It alleges he lied to an administrative investigator and to FBI agents about the stairwell encounter. The indictment also alleges false statements regarding a December 2023 incident in chambers involving another judicial assistant who passed out with her pants unbuttoned.
He is charged with deprivation of the right to bodily integrity under color of law, false statements with the intent to hinder law enforcement, and attempted alteration of a document to impair its use in an official proceeding. Both incidents allegedly happened at the Fresno County Courthouse in California. The indictment alleges that Corona sexually assaulted a judicial assistant in a stairwell in March 2024 and made false statements about it during an administrative investigation and a criminal investigation by the FBI.
The indictment alleges that Corona also made false statements to the FBI during an investigation of a December 2023 incident involving another judicial assistant who was found alone in his chambers with her pants unbuttoned after passing out. Corona had been alone with the woman for about two hours, and she was found about 30 minutes after he left, the indictment says.
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