Progressive activists call for investigation into senator for alleged 'no-show job'

Sen. Nicholas Scutari, who was the subject of several investigations into his job as Linden’s prosecutor, is facing intensifying criticism, now from a group of progressive Democrat activists who want the state’s Joint Legislative Committee of Ethical Standards to probe Scutari’s actions.

One of the activists behind the ethics probe demand, Sue Altman, director of New Jersey Working Families Alliance, is also calling for Scutari to be removed as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

“Being removed from the Judiciary Committee is significant because right now, he’s the arbiter of who moves up in the judicial system, and that person should have a high ethical standard,” Altman said in an interview Thursday.

Altman and nine others filed the ethics complaint to John Wallace on June 29, slamming Scutari (D-Union) for allegedly holding a “no-show” job as the Linden municipal prosecutor. Wallace, a former New Jersey Supreme Court justice, heads the ethical standards committee.

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