{"id":83970,"date":"2026-01-11T15:39:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83970\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T15:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T15:39:12","slug":"read-lehigh-county-district-judge-amy-zanelli-misconduct-complaint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/83970\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Lehigh County District Judge Amy Zanelli misconduct complaint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lehigh County District Judge Amy Zanelli is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcall.com\/2026\/01\/08\/lehigh-county-district-judge-created-book-of-grudges-violating-rules-of-conduct-conduct-board-alleges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">accused of misconduct by the Pennsylvania state Judicial Conduct Board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The board announced formal charges against Zanelli Jan. 8. She is accused of having a \u201cbook of grudges\u201d and a sexually explicit desk calendar in her office, as well as habitually using profanity, among other allegations.<\/p>\n<p>The state Court of Judicial Discipline will hold a trial and decide if there is convincing evidence. If so, Zanelli could face sanctions including censure, suspension, fine or removal from office.<\/p>\n<p>You can view the full complaint below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lehigh County District Judge Amy Zanelli is accused of misconduct by the Pennsylvania state Judicial Conduct Board. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154,46,433,182,139,28,432],"class_list":{"0":"post-83970","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-bethlehem","9":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","10":"tag-bethlehem-news","11":"tag-courts","12":"tag-lehigh-county","13":"tag-local-news","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-pennsylvania","16":"tag-top-stories-tmc"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}