A veteran Staten Island criminal defense attorney has been censured by a New York appeals court after not complying with rules and orders given to him by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit while representing a client on appeal.

Manuel Ortega, who has been licensed to practice law for more than 30 years, was publicly reprimanded by the Second Circuit and barred from practicing before it in March 2018.

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