New Jersey attorney faces retaliation for exposing fraud
Ken Rosellini's career is on the line because he stood up for his client.
Ken Rosellini, a New Jersey lawyer, is fighting for his professional life.
Nearly a decade ago {in 2016}, he filed a motion to overturn an alimony decision which the judge, Gary Wilcox, didn’t only deny. Judge Wilcox sanctioned Rosellini for filing a frivolous motion.
Judge Wilcox would become notorious a few years later as the TikTok judge, for creating NSFW TikTok videos.
A Superior Court Judge facing disciplinary action for making profane, racist, and sexually graphic TikTok videos said he didn’t realize they would be available to the public and claimed many were “taken out of context.”
Judge Gary Wilcox admitted to creating about 40 lip-synced videos that he placed on TikTok, some while wearing his judicial robe while in his court chambers, walking through the Bergen County courthouse, and in his bed partly undressed, using the pseudonym “Sal Tortorella.”
The Advisory Committee on Judicial Conduct filed a formal complaint against Wilcox last month. Copies of the videos were not released.
“He did not endorse any of the artists, their lifestyle, or their views,” Wilcox’s attorney, Gary Wille, said in response to a complaint. “He never intended to bring the judiciary into disrepute. Indeed, none of the postings were directed at anyone or had anything to do with any case or party before him. They were not made while performing judicial duties.”
In his response, Wilcox asked that he not be disciplined or receive a punishment not greater than an admonishment. The state Supreme Court could remove him from the bench.
“Wilcox has freely admitted his conduct and has expressed remorse,” his attorney said. “It is also clear that there is no risk that the Respondent will engage in similar misconduct in the future.”
Rosellini refused to pay the sanction- “That would be an admission of wrongdoing,” he told me- and appealed Judge Wilcox’s decision.
That appeal only raised the sanction, which he’s refused to pay.
The legal world- at least the local legal newspaper- has labeled him a troublemaker.
A Lawyer Defied Judges—and Disciplinarians Can't Agree on What to Do With Him the New Jersey Law Journal titled an article about Rosellini’s plight.
An examination of court records going back nearly twenty years, along with interviews with several people, shows that Ken Rosellini uncovered systemic corruption that New Jersey courts were desperate to cover up.
Rosellini’s license to practice law in New Jersey is suspended indefinitely, and he’s looking for relief from federal courts. He has a separate license to practice in federal court
“I received a temporary indefinite suspension by the New Jersey Supreme Court solely for not paying the sanction. Prior to the related censure, I had never received an ethics sanction of any kind by any court in 25 years of practice.” Ken told me by text.
{Michelle MacDonald, an attorney from Minnesota, can relate}
The whole affair started in 2006. It was the custody case of Dr. Michael Doblin and his ex-wife Linda Doblin. Starting in 1999, several court orders affirmed and reaffirmed that Linda Doblin was to have primary custody of their adopted son.
Ken Rosellini was off doing other work. Ms. Doblin was represented by other counsel. Judge Wilcox was yet to preside over the case as well. In 2006, the presiding judge was Edward Torack, who is now retired and practicing at the law firm of Bernstein, DePhillips & Kalosieh, LLP.
Not only did Ms. Doblin have primary custody, but several reports concluded that her ex-husband had abused their child. Here is part of a federal lawsuit Ken filed.
Inexplicably, while ignoring these reports, Judge Torack switched custody in February 2006, temporarily- according to Ken’s federal lawsuit- and then came an order in December 20006.
In December 2006, Judge Torack claimed the parties reached a settlement for a consent order- agreed by all sides- in which Dr. Doblin got sole custody. Linda Doblin got supervised visits, while she was ordered to go to treatment.
Why would she agree to this? Here is more from Ken’s lawsuit.
Linda Doblin maintained that she never agreed to this order, never knew its details, and worst of all, her purported signature was a forgery.
Linda was legally deaf, and she did not receive accommodations, Ken argued in his federal lawsuit, for her hearing loss. He argued she did not know what was agreed to in that December 2006 hearing.
Only, Judge Torack had her charged and sanctioned, and by the time she could appeal, time had run out.
Judge Torack is now retired and not bound by the same legal ethics of a sitting judge. I reached him at his firm, and we had an interesting conversation. At different times, he denied any wrongdoing, denied remembering the details of the case, and declined to comment. Listen to the interview below.
In the decade that followed, Linda’s son was sent to a Scientology reeducation camp named the Mojave Academy.
The Mojave Academy has since shut down, but I reached out to the Church of Scientology for an explanation of this school and its affiliation to the Church. The Church of Scientology did not respond.
The child went to this school, while Judge Wilcox presided, and Ken told me that Judge Wilcox failed to do due diligence to make sure it was proper and accredited.
The child ran away from his father’s home when he was seventeen. He lived with his mother and Dr. Doblin, Ken told me, dropped a subsequent motion for custody after finding out his son would testify.
Ken came on about a decade later and not on the custody case. He took on Linda as client pro bono in bankruptcy. His preparation for bankruptcy led him down a rabbit hole. That rabbit hole led him to the December 2006 consent order.
Ken was convinced the 2006 consent order was not proper and his client’s signature was forged. Custody was moot; the child was over eighteen. If he could get that order thrown out, he thought she could collect money in alimony which would help her stop the bankruptcy.
On June 10, 2016, he participated in a hearing in front of Judge Wilcox with another attorney, Frank LaRocca, who represented Dr. Doblin.
LaRocca is now a partner at LaRocca Hornik Rosen Greenberg & Crupi, LLC.
He told me he started this case as an associate. It was initially a jovial conversation, but I don’t think Mr. LaRocca expected me to know as much as I did. As such, it escalated quickly. He denied his client was abusive; he insisted that the December 2016 consent order was proper, signed off by all parties. Then, he hung up. Check out the interview below.
It’s the same argument that he made in court in 2016.
Ken saw it differently, arguing that not only was the order signature forged, but that the details of the order were never read into the record.
Judge Wilcox denied Ken’s motion, and he issued sanctions. Ken was to pay $3,500 for filing a frivolous motion.
Ken, in several conversations, used the legal term res judicata, a matter which has already been judged. That’s the legal standard Judge Wilcox used. Except, Ken argued, that if the initial order was forged and a fraud upon the court, everything which happened after was null and void.
Judge Wilcox ruled without looking at the merits. Was Linda Doblin’s signature forged? Take a look for yourself. The first two are Linda’s signatures from documents she did sign.
Here is her purported signature from Judge Torack’s handwritten order.
Ken has since fought a legal battle throughout the New Jersey legal system to overturn his sanctions and to have the signatures looked at.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office has opposed him in his argument over his license. I reached out to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, but they did not return an email for comment.
I reached out to the New Jersey courts media department, but my email was also not returned.
Linda Doblin has since died, but Ken’s fight continues.
He’s filed in federal court: to challenge his sanction and to challenge Judge Wilcox’s ruling. The New Jersey AG’s Office is opposing him on the sanction, and Ken argues in his filing that this creates a conflict.
The New Jersey AGs Office is representing the other side in several civil rights cases which Ken has filed: Jason Samartino and Rachel Alintoff.
Jason Samartino told me that Ken was representing him a federal lawsuit, along with his state criminal case, and a federal judge forced Ken’s removal, even though his federal law license is in good standing.
Ken argued in his federal lawsuit to reinstate his license that the AGs office is targeting him in part because of all the lawsuits he’s brought on behalf of clients suing entities of New Jersey which the AGs office is defending.
This case lays bare the systemic abuse in our legal system; it’s not how it’s meant to work, but rather how it does work. Massive malfeasance occurred in the Doblin custody case, but none of the perpetrators of that malfeasance have faced any consequences.
Instead, Ken Rosellini, who's trying to expose the malfeasance, who is facing punishment.
I love the work you do. I have to get my story out which I have put some of it on LinkedIn. My name is Janice S. Countess and I not only taught Peer Mediation in over 250 schools, but I was a state mediator with the Administrative Office of the Courts. I reported the prosecutor Stephen G Raymond for not paying me for a year’s worth of work then harassing me at home. I was on the Human Relations Committee and created the first Jr. Human Relations and taught it for a year. Every month the Human Relations unanimously voted I get paid. He never paid me but he did harass me at my home in the middle of the night trying to break up my marriage which he did. After a two year investigation he resigned and I was ordered never to talk about it. I saved his messages where he mocks me , knowing he didn’t pay me jokes if I call him back he’ll give me a million dollars. I was told I’d never get justice again in Burlington. This created an erosion of respect so Joe Gunn hired me to do work then threw the invoice back in my face. He later came over to my house to deliver a sealed copy of my divorce but he was drunk and tried to rape me. As he was manhandling me I pushed him off and ran towards the door but he pushed so hard into a wall he fractured 4 ribs and tore the cartilage in my knee. He was arrested and charged with 2nd degree aggravated assault but the trial was in Burlington. My doctor came to testify and was shocked as they made me out to look like a bad person. The judge in that case had been a prosecutor for Raymond and he made her a judge. I was told by Mark Molz that I’d never get Justice. I was blamed but the VCCB paid for loss of wages and medical that insurance didn’t cover.
So my ex actually his second wife sued to get rid of my natural life alimony since I worked full time in my husband’s business plus created a non profit but he never paid my Social Security. I was divorced April 4, 2000. Therefore the 2014 Alimony Reform Act which says I may keep my alimony would take effect. My ex wife got a lawyer and my sister Shirley, who didn’t know anything since we dot talk rewrote a totally false history. I’ve spent much of my alimony defending my alimony. My sister was diagnosed by Dr Lucian Sansouci to be an antisocial personality. My last check of $400/week was on Sept 8, 2023. My lawyer debated on the appeal so I won. I continued to get voice recordings from probation. I keep all tapes and transcripts. I hired James Green Barack Obama’s document examiner and he found my sister , Shirley forged my uncle’s signature. She rewrites history through letters and sends them to court.
I was left in an inheritance that can not be dissolved by just signing a paper especially under Fraud in the Inducement. The late Mark I Siman , Esq Deputy Attorney General of Wills and Charitable Estates proved to me those trusts are not dissolved and the money is in real estate. There is more. It is a series.
This massive corruption.