A New Jersey Superior Court judge was publicly admonished on Tuesday for using judicial letterhead to contact school officials to seek a benefit on behalf of his future stepson.
The state Supreme Court agreed with a disciplinary committee’s findings that Joseph Isabella’s use of the stationery—when corresponding with a school board’s counsel about the refusal to approve and fund summer camp for the special-needs son of his girlfriend Toni Manzo, now his wife—created the appearance that he was lending the prestige of his judicial office to influence a decision in his favor.
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