According to news reports, a Missouri attorney was suspended from the practice of law when he used confidential information that his client in a divorce case, illegally obtained by breaching into his wife's e-mail account after guessing his wife's password.
The EXACT same thing happened when my former recent client in a divorce action suffered a breach of his e-mail account by the opposing spouse.
I complained about it to the judge.
The judge chose his hatred against me over propriety, and DID NOT sanction the attorney or the e-mail breaching client.
I cannot divulge the name of the former client or any other information other than that the exact same breach of e-mail happened, since documents divorce proceedings in New York are sealed and that the attorney remained un-sanctioned, un-disciplined and still practicing law, and I cannot unseal them.
Yet, information that an attorney used in court proceedings what is a suspendable offense in another state, and a result of a federal crime (Internet hacking), is a matter of public concern.
I do not know whether the breach occurred at the direct order of that attorney or not, yet the attorney did know that the information the attorney was using was from the e-mail account from the opponent of the attorney's client in an extremely bitter divorce litigation - so the information could not possibly be obtained through consent of the e-mail account's owner.
There is no point for me complaining about that attorney, since the professional conduct committee has a tendency to go against me on such complaints, and not against the attorney I am complaining about, even with documentary evidence supporting my complaint (there was such incident in the past).
I just wanted to make the public know that, as I said in the heading, what is a suspendable offense in Missouri, is business as usual in New York, for some lawyers.
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