Opinion
D-193 September Term 2002
September 16, 2003
ORDER
The Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct having filed with the Court a presentment pursuant to Rule 2:15-15(a) recommending that ANTHONY J. SCIUTO, a retired Judge of the Superior Court, be censured for violating Canons 1, 2A, 2B, 3C(1)(a), and 3C(1)(c) of the Code of Judicial Conduct and for engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice that brings the judicial office into disrepute (Rule 2:15-8(a)(6)) by presiding over two cases in which he had a conflict of interest because of his ongoing involvement in financial dealings with a party and the party's attorney in both cases;
And respondent, through counsel, having Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct is adopted and retired Judge ANTHONY J. SCIUTO is hereby censured.
WITNESS, the Honorable Deborah T. Poritz, Chief Justice, at Trenton, this 16th day of September, 2003.