US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter's home
Source: Reuters
US DOJ lawyer hit with bar complaint over search of reporter’s home
By Jan Wolfe
Mon, February 9, 2026 at 7:34 PM EST
2 min read
Feb 9 (Reuters) - A press freedom organization has urged Virginia's attorney licensing body to discipline a federal prosecutor who applied for a warrant last month to search the home of a Washington Post reporter.
In a February 6 letter to the Virginia State Bar, Freedom of the Press Foundation said prosecutor Gordon D. Kromberg appeared to have withheld information from the magistrate judge who approved the warrant as part of a leak investigation.
The complaint asserted that Kromberg likely violated ethics rules by not informing the judge of the Privacy Protection Act of 1980, a law that limits searches for reporting materials.
The complaint alleged that Kromberg was likely "well aware of applicable law, but deliberately chose not to mention it," violating a state ethics rule mandating that lawyers disclose to judges legal authorities "adverse to the position of the client.”
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