And Now Probate Judges Behaving Badly

Recently on this blog, here and here, I reported on attorneys who have traveled to the “dark side” of probate practice.  It seems that judges are also not immune from temptation.

A recent report reveals that a surrogate judge, who had already been judicially removed from office for awarding excessive fees to a law school friend, and his associates are being investigated for allegedly engaging in host of improper activities including “brazen thefts from the assets of people who died without wills” in Brooklyn.  See Nancie L. Katz, B’klyn tomb-raid probe, NY Daily News, April 8, 2006.