Criminal Justice
Imprisoned Ex-Debevoise Associate Is Suspended After Child Abuse Conviction
A former associate at Debevoise & Plimpton has had his license suspended after a judge called him a “monster” and sentenced him to 15 years in prison last December.
An appeals court suspended the license of suburban Philadelphia lawyer Kenneth Schneider on Tuesday pending an ethics hearing, the New York Law Journal reports. He is appealing his October 2010 conviction on a charge of traveling in foreign commerce to have sex with a minor.
Schneider was accused of sexually abusing a Russian teen after paying his ballet school tuition. U.S. District Judge Juan Sanchez said at sentencing that Schneider was a “monster” for making the youth his “sex slave” for six years.
Schneider maintains his innocence.
