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A 15-page ethics complaint against E. Jean Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan — alleging she sat on knowledge of false deposition testimony about Reid Hoffman’s $7 million litigation funding for nearly...
On a Friday evening in July 1981, two suspended walkways at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency fell onto a crowded tea dance, killing 114 people. The cause was a single changed connection that no one had e...
The executives in charge of audit quality at KPMG spent years acquiring the regulator’s confidential inspection selections — “stealing the exam,” prosecutors called it. The scheme produced guilty plea...
For fifteen years, one of Europe’s most celebrated social psychologists invented his data at the kitchen table — 58 retracted papers, ten contaminated dissertations. When three junior researchers fina...
The 1998 Lancet paper linking the MMR vaccine to autism described twelve children and proved nothing. Behind it lay undisclosed lawyers’ fees, a patent on a rival vaccine, and case histories that matc...
He filed from Texas, West Virginia, and Maryland without leaving Brooklyn. When the New York Times finally audited Jayson Blair’s work in May 2003, it found fabrication or plagiarism in at least 36 of...
The largest Ponzi scheme in history — $64.8 billion in fabricated account statements, seventeen and a half billion in real money — ran for decades inside a firm chaired by a former chairman of Nasdaq,...
When FBI agents searched the New Jersey home of the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they found nearly half a million dollars in cash stuffed into jackets and envelopes, thirteen ba...
This month, The Ethics Reporter received a retraction demand from Clare Locke LLP — the firm behind the $787.5 million Fox settlement, now representing the Macrons against Candace Owens. We declined, ...
For decades, the law firm that terrorized corporate America on behalf of defrauded shareholders kept a secret stable of professional plaintiffs on retainer, paying them millions in kickbacks laundered...
The accounting firm founded on a legend of incorruptibility — a twenty-eight-year-old telling a railroad baron there wasn’t enough money in Chicago to make him certify a false statement — ended its li...
He had the Harvard degree, the Park Avenue offices, the Warhols on the wall, and a law firm with 250 attorneys — every one of them working for the only equity partner, who was selling fictional promis...
For more than two decades, the most trusted physician in American gymnastics sexually abused the athletes in his care while a university, a national governing body, an Olympic committee, and the FBI e...
For twenty-two years, the comptroller of Ronald Reagan’s hometown quietly diverted $53.7 million — more than the town’s annual budget, several times over — into a secret account that funded the most d...
In under two years in Dallas, neurosurgeon Christopher Duntsch maimed dozens of patients and left two dead — while hospitals quietly let him resign and move on. It took two horrified fellow surgeons, ...
He was thirty-one when Detroit made him mayor and a felon twice over by forty-three — undone first by his own text messages, then by a racketeering enterprise that ran city contracting as a tollbooth....
He forged a federal judge’s signature, sold investors shares of settlements that did not exist, bought a police charity, a political class, and half a restaurant district — and ran a 70-lawyer firm as...
Farid Fata ran one of Michigan’s largest private cancer practices and told healthy people they were dying, then billed Medicare for the poison he gave them. He was sentenced to forty-five years for a ...
For one feverish year, Michael Avenatti was the most famous lawyer in America — a cable-news gladiator floated as presidential timber. Then the wire-fraud counts started landing. The paraplegic client...
The New York State Commission on Judicial Conduct has ordered the removal of Queens Civil Court Judge Joseph Kasper — the borough's first removal in nearly a decade. The commission's 69-page determina...
The Ethics Reporter publishes the August 3 letter in which Chief Counsel Courtny Osterling ordered complainant Alex Lamartina to stop contacting the Committee Chair — and warned that his communication...
Charity Blackmon is serving 46 years in a Kansas prison for second-degree murder. Her 18-page K.S.A. § 60-1507 motion, obtained by The Ethics Reporter, alleges that her appointed attorney was not qual...
Georgia's Judicial Qualifications Commission has filed formal charges against DeKalb County Superior Court Judge Yolanda C. Parker-Smith after an investigative panel found reasonable cause across thre...
Mo Beler, a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of Equity & Structured Finance at Walker & Dunlop, followed a pregnant woman through New York traffic in a Mercedes G-Wagon with no front license plate...
An Erie County justice has denied Brown Chiari LLP’s motion to dismiss in its entirety, allowing malpractice, fraud, conspiracy, and Judiciary Law §487 attorney-deceit claims to proceed over allegatio...
Twenty-two days after the Commission on Judicial Conduct dismissed a complaint against Judge David Fried — its own member — in four sentences, a disguised grievance referral hit the attorney associate...
A sitting state judge checks a box on his recusal form that New York law says doesn't apply to him. The result: a legal smokescreen shielding what may be ethnic or religious bias.
On the morning of Matthew West's federal sentencing, a defense lawyer tracked down the judge who had taken his old plea — in a different county — and got it vacated on the spot. 'Tell him it was an ea...
Police reports, sworn testimony, and a restraining-order filing accuse Rep. Max Miller of throwing his wife against a wall, holding a gun to her head, and injuring his two-year-old daughter. The House...
If a murder trial were presided over by Charles Manson, no one would pretend the verdict deserved respect. So why should the thousands of attorneys disciplined by a Grievance Committee Chair who was h...