‘BIAS’ CASE: How Post first reported the story. (
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New Jersey Judge Paul Escandon will no longer hear divorce cases as of Jan. 2 after a months-long campaign by women who claim he systematically cheated them from the bench, a court source revealed.
“He has no business wearing a robe,” said Rachel Alintoff, who lost custody of her 2-year old, Hayden, in Escandon’s Monmouth County courtroom last year.
“I don’t think there’s any section of the judicial system where he won’t do damage.”
An Appellate Court reversed Escandon’s ruling, returning Hayden to his mom.
Escandon’s transfer comes six months after The Post first reported how he also awarded custody of three kids to a reputed mobster.
After divorcing her husband, Nicholas “P.J.” Pisciotti — an acting Bonanno capo under Vincent “Vinny Gorgeous” Basciano — Patricia Pisciotti lost custody of her son and two daughters in a post-divorce proceeding under Escandon.
Patricia said it happened despite her ex-husband’s 2007 testimony that he and an associate “probably” killed Bonanno associate Richard Guiga in a bar fight.