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John M. Skinner served as a non-attorney town court justice in Columbia, Herkimer County, for 16 years. He was formally censured in 2018. He continued the same conduct. In February 2026, the NYS Commi...
Courtny Osterling was admitted to the bar in 2011. David Chandler was admitted in 2014. Both are Chief Counsels of Second Department grievance committees — the offices that police attorney misconduct ...
On November 15, 2024, Syracuse City Court Judge K. Felicia Pitts-Davis asked her clerk whether any upcoming weddings involved a same-sex couple — then refused to officiate one, citing religious belief...
In May 2024, Canandaigua Town Court Justice Walter W. Jones used a racial slur repeatedly in a courthouse parking lot while telling a story to colleagues, then five days later accused a Black defendan...
The federal crime Cheryl Ann Cozza pleaded guilty to in 1997 is technically known as structuring — but federal law enforcement and banking regulators know it by another name: smurfing.
David William Chandler was admitted to the New York bar in 2014. He is the Chief Counsel of the Grievance Committee for the Second and Eleventh Judicial Districts — responsible for attorney discipline...
New York has no official list of its worst judges. It does have a paper trail — appellate reversals, Commission on Judicial Conduct determinations, and investigative journalism that, taken together, n...
Anthony D'Esposito, a former Republican congressman installed as the Labor Department's Inspector General in January 2026, spent his first months in office exploring a return to Congress — keeping his...
The moment someone says "I'm a lawyer" in a dispute, most people feel the power shift. The other person has credentials. They know the system. They have tools you don't.
There is a distinction that matters enormously in the legal profession and is almost entirely invisible to the general public: the difference between a law degree and a law license.
In a single week in June 2026, federal judges in Georgia, Idaho, and Michigan each faced formal consequences for conduct that critics say should never have come from the bench: sex in chambers and lyi...
A sweeping 205-page congressional report released this week accuses senior Minnesota officials, including former Governor Tim Walz and Attorney General Keith Ellison, of ignoring fraud warnings in tax...
Before diving into the record, a clarification that matters for anyone who has searched for this person online: Cheryl Cozza Milano also goes by Cheryl Cozza — presenting herself without the "Milano" ...
Favour Inegbenehi filed a formal complaint against Judge David Fried with the New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct. She waited nearly four months. The Commission's response was four sentences...
There is a specific kind of fear that the phrase "I'm an attorney" is designed to produce.
More than five years after federal authorities first uncovered what prosecutors called the largest bribery scandal in Ohio history, two fired FirstEnergy executives now face a fresh round of state cri...
While Joshua Wander faces federal criminal charges and his CFO has already pleaded guilty, one figure at the center of the SuttonPark structured settlement machine has largely escaped public scrutiny:...
A federal judge in Atlanta conducted a two-year extramarital affair with a high-ranking police officer inside her courthouse chambers — within earshot of staff — then lied to investigators. The Eleven...
Cheryl Cozza Milano — who also goes by Cheryl Cozza, dropping the married name "Milano" — is a resident of Armonk, New York, located in Westchester County. The name variation is worth noting at the ou...
David J. Rush, a senior executive service-level CIA officer, was arrested in May 2026 after FBI agents found 303 gold bars worth more than $40 million — along with $2 million in cash and 35 luxury wat...
Facing 25 confirmed ethics violations, a 15-count federal indictment for allegedly stealing $5.7 million in COVID-19 disaster relief funds, and a DHS ban from all future federal money, former Florida ...
In February 2025, the Department of Justice ordered federal prosecutors to drop bribery charges against New York City Mayor Eric Adams — a decision that triggered mass resignations, a federal judge's ...
A federal judge already disciplined for sex in chambers and lying to investigators is now fighting a Department of Justice motion to remove her from a high-stakes Georgia election records lawsuit — be...
Joshua Wander faces jail. His CFO faces jail. But two of 777 Partners' most senior operators — the Head of Capital Markets and the Head of Sports Investments — have quietly landed at prestigious firms...
A federal judge in Atlanta allegedly conducted a year-long secret affair with a high-ranking police officer inside her own chambers, lied to investigators, and attacked the whistleblower clerk who rep...
On the eight-year anniversary of Pedro Sánchez's rise to power, Spain's ruling Socialists face a reckoning that has no modern precedent in European democracy: a former prime minister under criminal in...
Almost two years after FBI raids rocked Oakland City Hall, a federal judge has denied former Mayor Sheng Thao and the Duong family's motion to suppress key evidence, clearing the path for a landmark c...
A bizarre email exchange involving a New York appellate clerk, defense counsel Ernestas Pravilionis, and opposing counsel the managing attorney exposes a deeper crisis of professional ethics, technolo...
Stephen D. Hans & Associates, P.C. — a Queens-based management-side labor and employment defense firm with more than 45 years of practice — has filed its appearance in the attorney v. Arnold & Smith L...
Attorney the managing attorney's TRO application in the Eastern District of New York presents a federal court with a documented record that is unusually clean at this early stage. A close reading of a...