A unanimous Appellate Division, First Department, panel has refused to vacate an order releasing the court records of a criminal case against Brooklyn attorney Seth Rubenstein to the Commission on Judicial Conduct when it was investigating Manhattan Surrogate Nora Anderson ( See Profile).
Rubenstein gave Anderson a $100,000 donation and a $150,000 loan during her 2008 campaign for surrogate, far above the legal limit of $33,000. Anderson failed to disclose the donation and loan in campaign filings and the two were prosecuted by the Manhattan District Attorney’s office. Both Rubenstein and Anderson were acquitted of offering a false instrument for filing ( NYLJ, April 2, 2010).
