New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Friday allowing Appellate Division, Second Department Justice Joseph Maltese to recoup 10 months’ salary he would have earned in 2021 while sidelined from a short-lived, cost-cutting measure.
Maltese, an elected state Supreme Court jurist designated to the Brooklyn appellate court in 2014, had been one of 46 judges whom court officials declined to certify or re-certify as part of the effort to curtail spending.