Syracuse, N.Y. — A Syracuse man has been accused of filing multiple false bankruptcy petitions in nine states that targeted local judges, a law enforcement official and a nonprofit organization, federal prosecutors said.

Robert W. Johnson, 41, was charged with making false declarations in a bankruptcy case, bankruptcy fraud, and falsification of bankruptcy records, according to a news release Thursday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York.

In June and July, Johnson mailed multiple petitions from Syracuse to courts in Michigan, Mississippi, Iowa, Florida, New York, Montana, Pennsylvania, Delaware and West Virginia, prosecutors said.

In those petitions, Johnson claimed that an Onondaga County state court judge, a Cayuga County Supreme Court judge and a law

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