Attorney General Quits After Ethics Inquiry
The state’s attorney general resigned after a special prosecutor concluded she violated state ethics laws by intervening in a traffic stop involving her boyfriend.
Zulima V. Farber’s live-in boyfriend, lawyer Hamlet Goore, was pulled over by police in Fairview, N.J., for a traffic violation in May, and Farber showed up at the scene in her state car. Goore’s van was found to be improperly registered and his license appeared to be suspended, but he was allowed to drive home.
In recent weeks, Farber denied doing anything to influence the police. But a special prosecutor appointed by the governor said in a report issued Tuesday that Farber violated state ethics laws by “approving actions which allowed Mr. Goore to drive his vehicle home.”
Farber will step down at the end of the month.
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