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Antonia Cipollone has been the backbone of the 9th Judicial District Grievance Committee for over twenty years. She was passed over for Chief Counsel — twice — in favor of people with a fraction of he...
Courtny Osterling was admitted to the bar in 2011 and was working at an OCA administrative office in Brooklyn as recently as 2022. He is now Chief Counsel of the Grievance Committee for the Ninth Judi...
New York's attorney grievance committees take years to dismiss cases, escalate charges on appeal to deter respondents from challenging outcomes, and operate with almost no meaningful accountability. T...
A source with deep expertise in the municipal bond market reached out to The Ethics Reporter with critical corrections and context about how retail investors are systematically disadvantaged in the $4...
American bar associations market themselves as guardians of professional integrity. But study after study reveals a darker reality: attorneys of color — particularly Black attorneys — are disciplined ...
The Government Accountability Office has spent months trying to determine how Elon Musk's DOGE operation accessed some of the federal government's most sensitive data systems — Social Security records...
Since 1963, the Supreme Court has required prosecutors to hand over evidence that could help the accused. Sixty years later, violations of that rule are rampant, wrongful convictions pile up — and the...
For years, two sitting Supreme Court justices accepted undisclosed gifts worth millions of dollars from billionaires with interests before the Court. No one stopped them — because nothing in federal l...
The Justice Department has moved to dismiss sweeping bribery and fraud charges against Indian billionaire Gautam Adani — days after he pledged a $10 billion investment in the United States and retaine...
The Justice Department has quietly paid out more than $8.5 million in taxpayer funds to settle legal claims by Trump supporters, including fired FBI agents disciplined for January 6 involvement, leaki...
In a divorce proceeding involving unvested restricted stock units granted to a husband by his former employer, Judge Robert S. Ondrovic denied the wife's motion both to compel financial disclosure and...
Shirley Caccioppoli was struck by a swinging metal gate at a Westchester County apartment complex, injuring her ankle. Judge Robert S. Ondrovic granted summary judgment to the defendants after their e...
In a single personal injury case arising from a car accident in Westchester County, Judge Robert S. Ondrovic made two separate legal errors — denying the plaintiff's motion to amend his complaint to a...
A senior Justice Department attorney in Rhode Island withheld a homicide arrest warrant from a federal judge during a bond hearing, leading to the release of a man wanted for murder in the Dominican R...
A tip received by The Ethics Reporter describes a pattern of alleged billing fraud by Albulena Uka — a recently sworn-in New York attorney and doctoral-level law academic affiliated with Brooklyn Law ...
When Gautam Adani's lawyers walked into a meeting with Trump's Justice Department last April, they came bearing a gift: a promise of $10 billion in U.S. investments and 15,000 American jobs. Days late...
A two-year attorney advertising “Big City Services at Upstate Prices” and “Full-Service Legal Solutions” on his website. New York Rule 7.1 forbids advertising that is false, deceptive, or misleading —...
Brooklyn Supreme Court Justice Edward Harold King resigned in December 2025 under investigation — then federal prosecutors arrested him and real estate operator Sam Sprei on May 13, 2026, charging the...
A New York attorney admitted in 2024 lists three office addresses — all confirmed virtual mailboxes or coworking spaces. His website uses AI-generated images to depict the lawyer. And he is handling c...
Kenneth Griffin, founder of Citadel and Citadel Securities, donated approximately $100 million in the 2024 election cycle, according to reporting by ArtNews based on FEC filings — making him one of th...
In late January 2021, Melvin Capital — a major GameStop short seller — received a $2.75 billion investment from Citadel and Point72 as GameStop shares surged. Within days, Robinhood restricted purchas...
In September 2023, the SEC charged Citadel Securities with violating Regulation SHO — the framework designed to prevent abusive short selling — after a coding error in the firm's automated trading sys...
When the Justice Department indicted India's richest man in late 2024 for an alleged $250 million bribery conspiracy, prosecutors called it corruption 'at the expense of U.S. investors.' Now, after Ad...
From the moment it was required to begin reporting to the Consolidated Audit Trail in June 2020, Citadel Securities fell short — inaccurately or untimely reporting data for tens of billions of equity ...
From a secret algorithm that stole from retail investors, to a $100 million political donation that killed the one rule that could have stopped them, to four years of hiding tens of billions of transa...
In January 2017, the SEC found that Citadel Securities used two automated algorithms — FastFill and SmartProvide — that gave retail investors worse prices than Citadel itself had observed in the marke...
If regulators wanted to address Citadel's structural conflicts, they could. Mandatory separation of hedge fund and market maker. Meaningful fines proportional to violations. Transparency requirements....
Kenneth Griffin founded Citadel with $4 million and built it into a $60 billion empire. But the operational architect of the dual model is Kevin Nutter, COO of Data. His decisions about data architect...
Citadel Securities was fined $7 million in 2023 for mismarking trades that lasted five years. In 2024, FINRA fined them $1 million for failing to report $42.2 billion in transactions. The fines repres...
A hedge fund wants to buy a million shares. Its market-making subsidiary sees that thousands of retail investors want to buy the same stock. The hedge fund benefits from knowing retail demand exists. ...