A state ethics panel recommends that Red Bank solo Kevin Wigenton, husband of U.S. District Judge Susan Wigenton, be censured for his admitted misappropriation of client trust funds, rejecting a special master’s call for a four-month suspension.
The Disciplinary Review Board found the infractions to have been negligent, not knowing, and thus not subject to the automatic disbarment rule of In re Wilson , 81 N.J. 451 (1979). Further, the DRB said, there were sufficient mitigating factors that censure is sufficient.
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