The Docket Made Me Do It — Municipal Court Judge Roman Montes blames a crushing case load for interactions with an exotic dancer that led to ethics charges against him.
Montes, who sits in Rahway and Elizabeth, admitted in his answer on Friday that he met the woman on Dec. 11, 2012, at a Rahway go-go bar called "Breathless, The Men's Club," and described on its website as "where elegance meets passion." They drank together and she danced for him, though not exclusively, he said. At some point that night, she told him she had appeared before him in a domestic violence case against her boyfriend less than two weeks earlier but now wanted it dismissed.
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