A Bronx judge who was reportedly unhappy with being transferred to a domestic violence part and refused to show up for work has been stripped of his staff and chambers, but will continue to collect a paycheck.

Bronx Supreme Court Justice Armando Montano had presided over felony criminal cases and pretrial hearings and was reassigned to the Integrated Domestic Violence court, which operates under a “one judge, one family” policy that is intended to bring together criminal, civil and matrimonial involving one family in which an underlying issue is domestic violence under the jurisdiction of a single jurist.

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