A state Supreme Court justice from the Bronx should be censured for using her staffers to watch her child while she was on the bench and inviting them pray with the judge in her chambers, the state Commission on Judicial Conduct recommended unanimously in a determination released Thursday.
By having her court employees look after her daughter on at least five occasions between 2006 and 2011, and probably more often, the commission said Mary Ann Brigantti-Hughes “engaged in conduct that was implicitly coercive and inconsistent with the ethical rules.”
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