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JUDGE TRANSFERRED OVER ALLEGED ACTIONS IN VISITATION CASE
New York Law Journal/Mark Fass
Judge Andrew G. Tarantino, Jr., a Suffolk County judge who was the subject of a searingcomplaint by Parents for Megan’s Law, a children’s advocacy group, has been transferred from FamilyCourt to the County Court’s civil term. According to the complaint, Tarantino granted afather who had been convicted of possessing child pornography and third-degree rape of a minorovernight visitation of his three children, supervised by his own parents. During thevisitation hearing in January, Tarantino joked about child pornography, misstated the facts of thecase, refused to hear