A state panel Monday recommended that a Broward County judge receive a public reprimand for actions during a 2022 re-election campaign, including forwarding potentially false or unverified information about her opponent to a political club.
The Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission made the recommendation to the state Supreme Court after an investigation of Judge Mardi Levey Cohen.
A document filed at the Supreme Court said Levey Cohen was accused, in part, of forwarding an email in July 2022 to a representative of the Wynmoor Condominium Democratic Club and did not “take sufficient steps to corroborate or verify the information contained in the email.”
The information, for example, included an accusation that Levey Cohen’s opponent obtained money from the federal Paycheck Protection Program during the COVID-19 pandemic when she did not qualify.
An agreement, known as a stipulation, also was filed Monday at the Supreme Court that said Levey Cohen “does not contest the findings and recommendations and accepts the discipline recommended therein.”
The Supreme Court has ultimate authority to discipline judges.
