A lawyer has been reprimanded by the New Jersey Supreme Court for advising a Miss USA contestant to breach her contract with President-elect Donald Trump, who owned the beauty pageant.
Richard Klineburger acted recklessly and with gross negligence in 2012, the court’s disciplinary counsel said, when he told Sheena Monnin to disregard an arbitration demand from the Miss Universe Organization, which Trump owned. Monnin, who was Miss Pennsylvania USA and had been competing for the title of Miss USA, was hit with an arbitration demand after she quit the contest and proclaimed on social media and in television appearances that it was “rigged.”
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