The Illinois Administrator has filed a disciplinary complaint alleging that an attorney engaged in misconduct.

The attorney represented the client in a divorce case and filed a federal action against the spouse and her counsel

[Client] Epstein alleged that Paula and Frank violated the federal Wiretap Act by intercepting, accessing, downloading, and printing Epstein’s private emails, without Epstein’s authorization, in furtherance of Paula’s interests in the then-pending state dissolution of marriage matter…

The attorney allegedly sent the following email to the judge’s proposed order account

“Thank you for this quick response, Judge Finnegan. BUT … Today in court no matter what I said to you, you had already made up your mind…”

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“…yet since the beginning you never seem to doubt anything he says, as you appear to doubt me.”

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“Still, I stated to you in open court that ‘I don’t want to be hated’ for doing my job, but it sure seems that way, as I never get a break, Scott [Schaefers] is the lucky guy who senses same as he can just pick up the phone to call you knowing he will get his way…or for so-called the Posner Defense.”

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“Still, it’s not fair that my client (and I) is [sic] being treated badly for suing his wife/ex wife, and everyone is protecting Paula – why? Since when does ‘two’ wrongs make a ‘right’? How am I to prove my case if I am not given a fair chance to do my work, properly