A former North Bergen municipal court judge was “pervasively dishonest” during a hearing into allegations he groped an employee of a client and he should be censured and “permanently disqualified from holding or securing future judicial office for his conduct,” the state Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct (ACJC) recommended. Nino Falcone’s “physical and verbal assault of A.C., attempts to solicit her silence, and demonstrably false testimony before this Committee — shock the conscience and reveal a lack of self-control and sound judgment on (Falcone’s) part, and a disrespect for the rule o…
