New York State Bar Association
For more than 100 years, the New York State Bar Association has shaped the development of the law, educated and informed the profession and the public, and responded to the demands of a changing society. Today, the New York State Bar Association is the oldest and largest voluntary state bar organization in the nation.www.nysba.org
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Sep 15, 2026
Stacey FrancisHOST
I went to a conference over the weekend and he had an actor that had died two years ago saying, you know, today is July 13th, 2026.
Stacey FrancisHOST
I'm preparing this for the New York State Bar Association.
Stacey FrancisHOST
And it was actually even not only his voice, but it was a video of as well.
Stacey FrancisHOST
I mean, it was as clear as day.
Peter WalshHOST
Uh, but I think that that's how, I think the reason I love this parable and it's so offensive is it offends our sensibilities of justice, of fairness.
Peter WalshHOST
Uh, You know, when my dad was a lawyer, and I remember his, I think it was either the New York State Bar Association, on this thing that was hanging in this tiny hallway of my birthplace, You know, Lady Justice, and I got this from Thomas Long, but not my dad's story, but Lady Justice, you know, is the blindfolded kind of looks like the Statue of Liberty holding out the scales and the scales of justice blinded, I guess, would be like this.
Peter WalshHOST
So what was on it didn't matter.
Peter WalshHOST
And now we have what I was talking about earlier.
IanHOST
So having started volunteering with the NRDC in 1984, Kennedy began volunteering at the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, renamed Riverkeeper in 1986 after a patrol boat it had built on with settlement money from legal victories preceding Kennedy's arrival.
IanHOST
After he was admitted to the New York Bar in 1985, Riverkeeper hired him as senior attorney.
IanHOST
Kennedy litigated and supervised environmental enforcement lawsuits on the East Coast estuaries on behalf of Hudson Riverkeeper and the Long Island Soundkeeper, where he was also a board member.
IanHOST
Long Island Soundkeeper sued several municipalities and cities along the Connecticut and New York coastlines.
James PietragalloHOST
Um, he then went to Albany Law School in 1977, or graduated from Albany Law School in 1977.
James PietragalloHOST
Then Peter was admitted to the New York State Bar in 1978.
James PietragalloHOST
So- Here we go ... he's a lawyer.
James PietragalloHOST
Um...
Eddie Montes TravisHOST
They have accessed your desk and used your notary stamp without your permission to forge a document.
Marylyn Lee TrotterHOST
We have to look at the New York State Bar Association ethical inquiry on this.
Marylyn Lee TrotterHOST
This story reads like a true crime legal thriller.
Eddie Montes TravisHOST
The names of the official inquiry are pseudonyms to protect the identities of the disciplined parties, but the facts are very real and deeply disturbing.
Michael DeanNARRATOR
And just two years ago, the leading medical, legal, nursing, and clergy organizations in New York issued public statements in support.
Michael DeanNARRATOR
The Medical Society of the State of New York, the New York State Bar Association, the New York State Nurses Association, and the New York State Council of Churches.
Michael DeanNARRATOR
Governor Kathy Hochul wisely and compassionately signed the Medical Aid in Dying Act into law.
Michael DeanNARRATOR
Now, dying New Yorkers have a new option, to have a safe and peaceful death, one that clearly benefits patients and causes harm to no one.
Kai BirdGUEST
This is an outrageous act of legal fraud and censures Roy and puts it in the record.
Kai BirdGUEST
And this is transmitted eventually to the New York Bar Association, and somehow the allegations against Roy get lost or filed away.
Kai BirdGUEST
There are dozens and dozens of cases of fraud filed against New York lawyers.
Kai BirdGUEST
But this comes back to Honperin.
Kai BirdGUEST
Ten years later, the New York Bar Association rediscovered the case, filed it again, goes to the courts, and there's a proceeding where Roy is at that point, this is in 1985, 86, Roy is dying of AIDS.
Kai BirdGUEST
Denying that he has AIDS claiming that he has liver cancer, but there's a proceeding in which they investigate these charges and 45 character witnesses turn up for Roy Cohn.
Sidney BlumenthalHOST
Who are the prominent? Who are they? Yeah.
Kai BirdGUEST
He walked into the hospital and grabbed his friend's hand and scribbled his signature that was completely illegible.
Kai BirdGUEST
But Ten years later, this caught up to him, and the New York Bar Association brought charges, and eventually he was disbarred just five weeks before he died.
Andrew HarrisonHOST
There's an entire story just in Roy Conan, Gay New York, and the fact that, amongst other things, he co-owned gay bars that were run by the mafia, while simultaneously issuing this violent homophobic rhetoric, including...
Andrew HarrisonHOST
the old slur that gay men are all pedophiles, whereas you yourself reveal he was actually sexually abusing underage boys himself.
Kai BirdGUEST
He claimed he had liver cancer.
Kai BirdGUEST
And in the meantime, as he's dying, he's also being investigated by the New York Bar Association for one murder.
Kai BirdGUEST
misdeed and crime after another.
Kai BirdGUEST
And most specifically, they got him on, back in 1973, he flew down to Miami to see one of his old clients and friends, Lew Rosenstiel, the liquor baron of Kentucky.
Kai BirdGUEST
And this is ridiculous.
Kai BirdGUEST
fought through in Florida courts and the Florida courts within six months declare the will invalid and they formally reprimand Roy for having legal fraud.
Kai BirdGUEST
And finally, this incident in particular catches up to him in the New York Bar Association.
Kai BirdGUEST
And he is about three weeks before he dies.
Michael PopokHOST
as a public interest group has stepped forward to file a second bar complaint against Jeanine Pirro for her unethical conduct and behavior.
Michael PopokHOST
She's a member of the New York Bar like I am, of the DC Bar and the Legal Accountability Center.
Michael PopokHOST
following on the heels of lawyers for good government, have filed a new bar complaint alleging particularly that because she went forward with the investigation and the prosecution and the attempted indictment of six members of the House and the Senate, led by Senators Mark Kelly and Alyssa Slotkin, because they made a 90-second video reminding the military that they cannot follow and should not follow illegal orders under...
Michael PopokHOST
the rules of military justice, under the Nuremberg rules, you can't follow an illegal order, unconstitutional order.
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Michael PopokHOST
That's Rule 3.8, that by directing her underlings to seek the meritless indictments against the Trump administration's perceived political enemies, she thereby engaged in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice in violation of Rule 8. etc.
Michael PopokHOST
Then it goes through all of the facts here.
Michael PopokHOST
She's a member of the New York Bar because you may recall before she got on Fox and became Donald Trump's best friend, she was a district attorney in the state system in Westchester County.
Michael PopokHOST
She was never a federal prosecutor.
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