Bruce Green was quoted in a Miami Herald article about legal ethics as related to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s plea deal for sexually abusing teenage girls.
The lawyer for the 16-year-old girl who state prosecutors now say was the victim attached to the mysterious plea deal given to multimillionaire Jeffrey Epstein says neither he nor his client was ever informed that it was her case that ended Epstein’s prosecution.
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Bruce Green, a professor of legal ethics at Fordham University School of Law, said that if it is found that prosecutors lied to a judge, disciplinary charges can be brought by the Florida Bar.“The lawyer could be sanctioned, suspended or disbarred. But that assumes the prosecutor deliberately lied to the judge — not that the prosecutor misremembered or didn’t understand the question,’’ he said. “It does seem like the lawyers for Epstein went to a lot of trouble to maintain as much confidentiality surrounding the deal and its resolution, so it could have been deliberately keeping the judge in the dark.’’
