Court upholds $372,000 sanctions against lawyer

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The Associated Press
ATLANTA -- The federal appeals court in Atlanta has upheld $372,000 in sanctions against one of Michael Vick's bankruptcy lawyers in an unrelated case.
The sanctions stemmed from a bankruptcy case in Florida involving Evergreen Securities Ltd., which authorities say cheated investors around the world of an estimated $214 million in a 1990s Ponzi scheme.
Peter R. Ginsberg of New York, who represented one of the principals, tried to get U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur B. Briskman of Orlando removed from the case. Briskman imposed monetary sanctions and barred Ginsberg from practicing in the Bankruptcy Court of Middle Florida for five years.
A federal judge upheld the sanctions, and a three-judge 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel concurred in an opinion Thursday.

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