26 Facts About Joey Torres

Jose "Joey" Torres was born on 1958 and is an American politician who served as mayor of Paterson, New Jersey, the third-largest city in New Jersey.

Joey Torres was again elected May 13 and was sworn in July 1,2014.

Joey Torres pled guilty to corruption charges on September 22,2017, and was forced to step down from his mayoral position.

Joey Torres was succeeded by Ruby Cotton, the president of the city council, and was replaced by retired city clerk Jane Williams-Warren on October 10,2017.

Joey Torres is the youngest of eight children of Juan Torres, who had migrated to the city in 1949, and Catalina Torres.

Joey Torres is married to Sonia Torres, who ran in a special election to represent of the 2nd Ward of city's council in 2012.

Joey Torres first won a seat on Paterson's city council in 1990 after having previously run five times.

Joey Torres served on the City Council for five terms.

Joey Torres later became the purchasing agent for the city's housing authority.

Joey Torres ran for election as an independent in the 2014 mayoral race which took place on May 13,2014.

Joey Torres received 930 of the absentee ballots, 38.5 percent of the total and more than twice as many as any other candidate.

Joey Torres collected $4,152 more than his salary from July 1 through December 5,2014 in erroneous payments.

Joey Torres returned much of the erroneous payments after payroll clerks discovered the error and made his final payment after it was exposed in a local newspaper.

In 2015, Joey Torres created the position of "deputy mayor", which are multiple, unofficial and unpaid.

In 2012, Joey Torres was fined $14,350 by Election Law Enforcement Commission for failing to include information on donors to his campaign for election in 2010.

In January 2014, a 26-page report compiled by the city council reviewed payments made to Joey Torres regarding salary payment irregularities.

On July 29,2008, Joey Torres had written a memo to the city's treasurer "requesting a paycheck for ten vacation days from 2007".

Joey Torres said he was willing to repay the money only if the New Jersey Attorney General's office or the Passaic County prosecutor's office found wrongdoing.

Joey Torres was appointed director of the Bunker Hill Special Improvement District, a business improvement district and Urban Enterprise Zone, established in 1994 in the Bunker Hill neighborhood, a mostly industrial area in the northwest of city along the Passaic River.

In May 2014 Joey Torres said he would discuss resignation from the position after being sworn-in as mayor.

Joey Torres receives free health coverage as a retiree based on his pension, due to the fact that the New Jersey treasury department approved his retirement and pension.

Joey Torres was indicted on corruption charges on March 7,2017.

The investigation of misuse of municipal workers began with broadcast surveillance videos taken by private investigations firm AHM Investigations LLC Joey Torres turned himself in to New Jersey State Police in Totowa on March 13,2017.

Joey Torres was arraigned on the charges on April 17,2017.

Joey Torres pleaded not guilty to the charges in Hudson County Superior Court.

Joey Torres pleaded guilty to corruption charges on September 22,2017 and was forced to step down from his mayoral position.