A federal appeals court has upheld a $372,000 sanction against a Crowell & Moring partner and affirmed his five-year suspension from practice in bankruptcy court in a big swath of Florida.
Peter R. Ginsberg, a white-collar defense attorney in Washington, D.C.-based Crowell & Moring’s New York office and a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, lost his appeal of the sanctions on Thursday in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. A three-judge panel found that Ginsberg’s attempts to have a bankruptcy judge recuse himself from a Chapter 11 case were in bad faith.
