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NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate
NJ Judge Charged With Covering Ties To Friend She Appointed To Handle $600,000 Estate Passaic County Surrogate Bernice Toledo tried to cover up her appointment of a longtime friend and political ally as administrator of a $600,000 estate over the objections of the dead man’s cousin, state authorities charged. Toledo, 51, of Wayne first drew the attention of a state judicial ethics committee after she claimed that “all of the competent adult next of kin and other persons having a prior right to administer the estate had renounced [that] right,” Acting New Jersey Attorney General Andrew J. Bruck said. “In reality, a relative of the decedent who had a prior right of administra…

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