A second New York attorney caught in a money-laundering sting operation reported by 60 Minutes has agreed to, and received, public censure.
The CBS program caused a stir in the New York legal community in January 2016 when it reported on an undercover probe by anticorruption advocacy group Global Witness.
Lawyers in 13 different New York law firms met with an investigator posing as a German lawyer who represented a West African mining minister.
The minister wanted to buy a brownstone, a jet plane, and yacht with money whose origins were questionable. Only one lawyer immediately declined the representation during ...
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