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Bench Press News: covering attorney & judges disciplinary actions, disbarment, suspensions. Whistleblower, Ponzi, Class Action stuff. Persona non grata.

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Tucker. One of his most important messages. April 21 speech at the Heritage Foundation’s 50th-anniversary gala https://t.co/9YcP57P0gv

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Former attorney pleaded guilty Thursday in Chicago to disobeying a court order that called for settlement funds to be distributed to relatives of victims killed in a plane crash. https://t.co/h4MQYZeDY6

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District of Columbia Court of Appeals suspended attorney David Edelstein from practicing law in the District of Columbia. The suspension is based on disciplinary actions taken against Edelstein in Maryland. https://t.co/E6myWhqogb

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Georgia Supreme Court disbarred attorney Charles Bruce Singleton Jr. in March 2026 for violating professional conduct rules by cutting off communication with clients and withholding settlement funds https://t.co/pYJcI1ychh

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Disbarred Boston attorney, Benjamin Tariri, gets prison time for stealing nearly $2M from clients https://t.co/7jnTvQVrJD

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Victims of Attorney Theft Awarded More Than $240k by Lawyers’ Fund. 5 former or suspended Ohio attorneys engaged in dishonest conduct resulting in financial losses to clients. Since its inception, LFCP has awarded over $26 million to consumers https://t.co/t7Oe4pNEjU

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KC lawyer, Tyler Brown, disbarred by Illinois Supreme Court over role in Boilermakers theft case

Read more at: https://t.co/qFgxor9oxW

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🚨DEVELOPING: MASSIVE CRACKS IN THE GROUND ARE STARTING TO FORM BENEATH LAS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 🚨

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FL- disbarred Deltona lawyer James Leon on probation for pushing people out of their homes when they defaulted on their property tax debts was #arrested for violating his house arrest conditions

#JamesLeon
#disbarred
#grandtheft

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LOS ANGELES- Former high-powered attorney litigator Tom Girardi was #convicted of running massive 10-year Ponzi scheme in which prosecutors said he siphoned at least $15 million in settlement funds from four clients
#TomGirardi
#PonziScheme
@Embezzlement

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POLK COUNTY, Fla. - Attorney Jason Penrod arrested on the first degree felony for grand theft of over $100k, according to Sheriff Grady Judd.

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#JasonPenrod

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@Sheridanblog @Prolotario1 Stanton LaVey, Anton LaVey's grandson

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@HamHam361791 @Prolotario1 1978 interiew of John Stockwell. He joined the U.S. Marine Corps and later became a CIA officer, not a director. Serving in West Africa and Vietnam, resigned in 1976 due to disagreements with CIA operations. He authored books on the CIA and lectured on covert ops. #CIA #history

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Frightening fact everyone should know: unelected bureaucrats, often captured by the industry they are supposed to regulate, create most of the federal laws in this country.

There are hundreds of federal agencies. These agencies run by unelected government bureaucrats adopt regulations, whereas Congress passes statutes– but both statutes and regulations are laws.

Each year, Congress typically passes a few hundred statutes whereas federal agencies typically adopt a few thousand regulations! Again, both are considered the “law.”

You may say, “Hey, I thought the Constitution provided in Article I that only Congress may pass laws” and you are correct. But the Supreme Court (the Article III branch of our government) said it is fine for these federal agencies, which are part of the executive (part of the Article II branch of our government), to pass regulations to fill in the laws enacted by Congress. In reality, though, unelected bureaucrats create vast and sprawling regulations that do much more than “fill in” holes in laws passed by Congress. This “administrative state” should be deemed unconstitutional.

The argument made in support of allowing agencies to adopt endless regulations is that Congress doesn’t have the expertise to write laws in certain areas and so it leaves it to these agencies. In reality, however, that makes it worse, not better, because it means Congress also can’t oversee what laws they are passing and, in the end, these agencies all end up being captured by the very industries they are supposed to regulate. (This is partly because it is the industry that has the time and the long-game motivation to influence the agencies and partly because of the revolving door whereby government employees, if they behave, later get a lucrative job in the industry they are supposed to regulate).

This may put into context the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of the Chevron deference this week - this was one small but important step toward removing the power of administrative agencies. It is bad enough federal agencies get to write laws but having federal courts defer to the agencies to also interpret laws that were passed by Congress was insane! This deference is what the Supreme Court just overturned this week.

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Second Circuit Throws Out #Disbarred Ex-BigLaw attorney Anthony Zappin's RICO Suit.

The Second Circuit on Monday upheld the dismissal of a racketeering case against three foes he blames for his predicament

#AnthonyZappin

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Southern California attorney Evie Pei Jeang faces #disbarment for misappropriating $5M in funds

#EviePeiJeang

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Texas Attorney James Morris Balagia Serving 15-Year Sentence Is #Disbarred. In 2021 Balagia was sentenced to more than 15 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of cheating big-time Colombian drug trafficking clients

#JamesMorrisBalagia
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OHIO - #Disbarred Cincinnati Lawyer Richard Crosby Accused of Lying to Get Lucrative Jobs Is In Custody.
He is accused of defrauding multiple law firms by using phony credentials to apply for and sometimes obtain high-paying attorney jobs
#RichardCrosby
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NEW YORK — Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, federal prosecutor and legal adviser to Donald Trump, was #disbarred in New York on Tuesday after a court found he repeatedly made false statements about Trump’s 2020 election loss.

#RudyGiuliani
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#Disbarred California attorney David Kagel pleaded guilty to conspiring to operate a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme that defrauded victims of over $9.5 million.
#DavidKagel

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#Disbarred Colorado Injury Attorney Brian S. MacKenzie Faces Another Malpractice Suit.
Client claims he failed to file her personal injury lawsuit against a grocery store by expiration of the statute of limitations period.
#BrianSMacKenzie
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