In Passaic County a lawyer who serves as a judge in four municipalities and functions as a attorney for various boards in other municipalities, has been charged with various ethics violations by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct.

There were three separate violations asserted against the judge. The first related to improper political contributions that he made through a business entity that he owned or controlled. The second pertained to a case where the judge's law firm represented a police officer for the City of Passaic in a civil and criminal controversy at a time when the law firm was disqualified because of the judge’s position as a magistrate in a town located in Passaic County. The third, and perhaps the most serious, evolved from a number of the judge’s failed real estate investments.

As to this last accusation, it seems that the judge had been sued over 40 times where more than $2.5 million in judgments had been returned against him to the extent that his creditors levied on his judicial wages. The ethical complaints allege that the judge failed to report to the Administrative Office of the Courts that he had been sued 43 times; that he had twice transferred title of his beach home to relatives to avoid payment of judgments were both transaction were voided because they were considered fraudulent; and, at least three Superior Court judges found him in violation of litigant’s rights when he failed to provide information that would allow creditors to locate his assets.

The ACJC contends that these violations undermine his judicial office and "severely and irrevocable impaired it."