Well, Pam Bondi is no longer AG, and more than 120 lawyers have resubmitted the ethics complaint to the Bar.
I figure that said Bar will find a way to do nothing.
Since President Donald Trump fired U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi in April, a coalition of law professors, former judges and attorneys has urged the Florida Bar once again to open an investigation into allegations of professional misconduct against Bondi while the state-licensed lawyer headed the Department of Justice.
The liberal- and moderate-leaning group of more than 120 attorneys, led by former Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Peggy Quince, filed a complaint against Bondi with the state bar on Wednesday. They allege she violated several ethics rules while she zealously pursued Trump’s agenda targeting immigrants and his political enemies. The complaint also accuses her of misleading the public about the Justice Department’s files on convicted sex-offender Jeffrey Epstein and mishandling the release of those documents.………
Last June, the Florida Bar rejected the coalition’s initial request to open an investigation into Bondi, citing a jurisdictional issue that it “does not investigate or prosecute sitting officers appointed under the U.S. Constitution while they are in office.” But Bondi, a Florida native who previously served as a state prosecutor in Tampa and attorney general under Gov. Rick Scott, is no longer a Justice Department employee, which should compel the Florida Bar to open the investigation, the coalition said in its 25-page complaint.
“Now that Ms. Bondi is no longer Attorney General, it is imperative that The Florida Bar open an investigation of her apparent misconduct in that office,” the complaint says. “Ms. Bondi’s misdeeds were not minor — they resulted in prejudice to the legal rights of those contending with the Department of Justice and injury to the public’s perception of the fairness of the legal system.”
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One month before Bondi’s firing, the Justice Department proposed a new regulation that would allow the agency to review a complaint of professional and ethics misconduct against a former employee before any state bar investigation.
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The complaint says Bondi caused the exodus of hundreds of federal prosecutors who were fired or resigned. They included some Miami-based prosecutors who were associated with the special counsel’s prosecution of Trump for his alleged withholding of classified documents and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, rioters’ assault on the Capitol. The complaint also says the Justice Department under her watch violated federal court orders in dozens of immigration and related protest cases, and it pursued prosecutions of Trump’s political adversaries and others without sufficient probable cause that they committed crimes.
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“Ms. Bondi took her practice of prosecuting without probable cause to a new level after September 20, 2025, when President Trump upbraided her, in a message that he posted on social media, for not moving quicker to pursue his enemies,” the complaint says. “Bondi promptly launched criminal prosecutions or investigations of the named individuals and others. These prosecutions all share a second characteristic: a lack of probable cause.”
A major portion of the coalition’s complaint zeroes in on Bondi’s handling of the so-called Epstein files, the Justice Department’s sex-trafficking investigation that has caused a political furor among Trump’s right-wing base. Epstein was convicted of soliciting minor girls in a state plea deal in West Palm Beach in 2008, but federal prosecutors filed a sex-trafficking indictment against him in 2019, which ended with his suicide in a lock-up that year.
While the complaint is not a bad thing, it really should be a prelude to her being arrested, tried, convicted, and jailed.
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