Law & Crime
A tenured New Jersey criminal court judge appointed to the bench by former Gov. Chris Christie (R) is facing discipline over allegedly posting dozens of inappropriate TikTok videos, some even from chambers and courthouse hallways, that show the judge lip-syncing to sexually-explicit and profane lyrics.
Judge Gary Wilcox, 58, a judge who was appointed in 2011 to family court before being reassigned to the criminal division in 2016, is the subject of a complaint for posting 40 now-deleted videos on a public TikTok account between April 2021 and March 2023 under the pseudonym “Sal Tortorella.”
According to the filing, 11 videos “were inappropriate and brought disrepute to the Judiciary” in that they contained violent, sexual, or misogynistic content or showed Wilcox in chambers, in the courthouse, or lying in a bed wearing judicial robes while partially dressed.
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