Coming Clean

The New Jersey Supreme Court accepted the recommendation of its Disciplinary Review Board and imposed a six-month suspension of an attorney.

From the DRB report

In an effort to secure a swift dismissal of Edmonson’s lawsuit in the District of New Jersey, respondent made multiple, brazen misrepresentations to both Edmonson and the District Court. Moreover, he manipulated the state court records in an attempt to deceive Judge Bumb and to secure a ruling in his client’s favor. Specifically, he misrepresented multiple times, including in a certification under penalty of perjury, that the state litigation had settled, despite knowing that it had not settled, but, rather, had been dismissed without prejudice. Respondent continued his course of deception during the OAE’s investigation into whether he had made misrepresentations to the federal court by continuing his lies, offering both hollow excuses and unsupportable legal arguments that the state court matter had settled. By way of the stipulation, respondent has now come clean, admitting his scheme to attempt to deceive a District Court judge in New Jersey.

The only mitigation was the stipulation of misconduct. (Mike Frisch)