Judge on Trial: Federal Medicare Jurist Arrested for Domestic Violence

A federal Medicare administrative law judge who has presided over cases for more than two decades found himself on the other side of the law Sunday after being arrested for allegedly cutting his wife with a butter knife at their Miami home.

Gerald Foulds, 79, was booked on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon causing bodily harm, according to Miami-Dade jail records.

His wife told investigators the couple got into a verbal argument that escalated physically. She described a 14-year marriage marked by repeated physical altercations she had never previously reported, characterizing her husband as impulsive, aggressive, and struggling with alcohol. She had retreated to the kitchen to avoid a confrontation, but Foulds followed, grabbed her shoulder, and when she raised her arm to block him, he grabbed a butter knife from the counter and cut her left arm. She fled to a neighbor’s home before seeking treatment at urgent care. Foulds denied the allegations to investigators.

His bond court appearance Monday before Judge Mindy Glazer produced some striking exchanges. When Foulds asked whether his judicial status entitled him to be released on his own recognizance, Glazer pressed him on what kind of judge he was.

“I’m a Medicare administrative law judge for 21 years,” he replied.

Glazer declined to release him without conditions, noting the victim had been cut with a knife. She ordered him to stay away from his wife, to which Foulds objected that he needed somewhere to live. Glazer reminded him that domestic violence victims hold superior legal standing over property owners in their own homes.

Foulds was assigned pretrial services with an alternate bond set at $2,500.