A state Superior Court judge in Passaic County is facing removal from office for allegedly aiding a friend in a child custody dispute, lying to authorities and manipulating phone records to cover her tracks, a panel of judges told the state Supreme Court.
Three Superior Court judges found that Judge Liliana DeAvila-Silebi — who was the presiding judge for criminal cases in Bergen County from 2010 to 2015 and was transferred to Passaic County, where she handled civil litigation — demonstrated “patent abuse of office” when she helped Vivianne Chermont, a former judicial intern, win custody of her child for Mother’s Day weekend in 2015, according to court documents released Wednesday.
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