A lawyer who joined the state bar in 2016 has been suspended for three months after admitting she set up a fake email account to falsely complain about a co-worker’s job performance related to a vendor, and that she sent an anonymous letter to the co-worker’s husband’s workplace falsely accusing the husband of sexual harassment.

The lawyer, Haelee Helen Shin, is no longer working in a legally-related position, and she has fully accepted responsibility for her conduct, though she has yet to apologize to her former co-worker, according to an Appellate Division, First Department opinion suspending her law license for the three months.

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