Former N.J. mayor, barred from public office, accused of trying to run again

In February 2022, Jose “Joey” Torres announced to a crowd that he was running for mayor, according to the New Jersey attorney general’s office. There was nothing new about that. Torres had served as mayor of Paterson, N.J., in two stints between 2002 and 2010, and from 2014 to 2017. But Torres, 64, had ended his tenure in disgrace. He resigned before completing his third term in office in 2017 after pleading guilty to second-degree conspiracy to commit official misconduct, by assigning city employees to work at a warehouse owned...