CLEVELAND, Ohio – Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Judge Leslie Ann Celebrezze should be suspended from practicing law for a year for funneling hundreds of thousands of dollars in business to a longtime friend, the state’s disciplinary counsel said Friday.
The counsel recommended that six months of the punishment be dropped if she commits no other misconduct.
“Instead of enhancing the public’s confidence in the integrity, impartiality and independence of the judiciary, (Celebrezze), through manipulation and deceit, tarnished the reputation of the judiciary and undermined the public’s confidence in the institution,” wrote Joseph Caligiuri, the counsel…