The New Jersey Superior Court judge who posted dozens of TikTok videos, including some from chambers and courthouse hallways, was suspended from the bench for three months by the Garden State‘s top court Monday.
Judge Gary Wilcox, 59, was appointed by then-Gov. Chris Christie, a Republican, to family court in 2011 and was reassigned to the criminal division in 2016. Wilcox faced a formal complaint by the Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct for posting 40 since-deleted videos, some of which contained profane language, on a public TikTok account between April 2021 and March 2023 under the pseudonym “Sal Tortorella.”
Wilcox was accused of bringing disrepute to the judiciary with videos that contained violent, sexual, or misogynistic content, or that showed Wilcox around the courthouse. One video referenced in the complaint showed Wilcox partially dressed in judicial robes while lying on a bed.
Another allegation included the posting of a video in which the judge appears in chambers flanked by law books lip-synching “All my life, I’ve been waiting for somebody to whoop my a–. I mean business! You think you can run up on me and whip my monkey a–? Come on. Come on!”