DOJ Finds Misconduct by Alaska Prosecutor Who Sexted Ex-Judge

The Justice Department’s Office of Professional Responsibility concluded that an Alaska federal prosecutor who sent nude photos to disgraced former Judge Joshua Kindred committed “intentional professional misconduct” when she kept arguing cases in his courtroom.

Assistant US Attorney Karen Vandergaw, who has said she felt coerced into sending Kindred the explicit photographs over a months-long period, violated professional conduct rules by concealing her relationship with the judge and continuing to prosecute cases “despite a conflict of interest and without obtaining her client’s informed consent,” OPR said in a summary of its findings, released last month.

The professional responsibility office, which ...