NEW: CfA filed a New York bar complaint against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, after a federal judge found him personally responsible for acts related to the vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. https://t.co/fK1bDJi1i7
Earlier this month, the Attorney Grievance Committee of the Third Judicial Department of NY told CfA it had determined prosecutorial misconduct by another DOJ official, John Sarcone III, the First Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of NY. https://t.co/9NXuGrpkMR
NEW: CfA filed a New York bar complaint against Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, after a federal judge found him personally responsible for acts related to the vindictive prosecution of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. https://t.co/fK1bDJi1i7
CfA's Michelle Kuppersmith: “A court finding that a lawyer was involved in a presumptively vindictive prosecution should be sufficient to trigger an investigation by the New York bar. Failing to act when confronted by such a court decision would undermine the bar’s credibility.”
“How can the public be able to fully trust his word absent a clean breast of these matters?” the @timesunion Editorial Board wrote. “How can judges or opposing counsel view him as an honest broker?” https://t.co/G5Ao4q87TP
After the New York bar confirmed to CfA that they found John A. Sarcone III to have committed professional misconduct while serving as Interim U.S. Attorney, the @timesunion Editorial Board asks an important question:
What exactly did they determine Sarcone did wrong?
There are many aspects of his conduct to pick from.
CfA's 2025 complaint cited numerous rules that Sarcone may have violated. In his short tenure, Sarcone made myriad apparently false claims, and retaliated against the media that reported on these claims. https://t.co/PHA4RDF39v
A new piece by @samleecole looks at the fallout after a boy created nonconsensual sexual AI deepfakes of his female classmates.
The images were generated in an app called Movely—one tested by TTP in our April report, and available for download in the Apple App Store at the time.
This is not the first time CfA has questioned SFOF’s credibility. In 2024, CfA asked the SEC to investigate whether donations to SFOF violated the agency’s pay-to-play prohibition on political contributions by certain investment advisers. https://t.co/SW6LzoxSxS
NEW: CfA urged the State Financial Officer’s Foundation (SFOF) to remove Board President Seth Metcalf from his role.
Court records reveal Mr. Metcalf engaged in an effort to induce an Ohio teachers' pension fund to hire his unqualified company to manage nearly 70% of its assets.
Ohio Treasurer Robert Sprague, a member of SFOF, has been critical of QED’s attempt to secure STRS’s business, telling a reporter that he agreed with the court’s ruling. https://t.co/jcz7m7xFE5