This Lawyer appears to have been stopped, permanently.
From NY POST:VIOLATED IN THE PEEPER'S COURTATT'Y 'PUT SPY CAM' ON UNDRESSED STAFF
By LAURA ITALIANO
July 7, 2007 -- He hoped to peruse their briefs - and then some.
A Legal Aid Society lawyer was charged in Manhattan yesterday with sneaking a camcorder disguised as a clock into the offices of his young female colleagues so he could videotape them as they changed in and out of their business suits.
From 2004 until last October, attorney Peter Barta, 32, switched the motion-activated device in and out of at least five women's offices in the Legal Aid's TriBeCa suite, and succeeded in capturing nude images of at least one of them, prosecutors said.
But the criminal defense lawyer was eventually outfoxed by his foxy prey.
One of his victims realized she had a peeping Tom on her hands when she found a picture of the same mysterious, reappearing clock in a copy of a catalog for The Sharper Image - under the heading, "Security Camcorder Hidden in a Clock."
The unnamed woman and her female colleagues took a closer look at the clock in question, which was sitting on a colleague's desk - but aimed toward the desk of one of the women.
When they were able to pop out its computer memory card and download images the gals alerted their bosses, who then trained a hidden camera of their own on the offending device.
For a few days, the cameras stared down each other.
Then, last Oct. 26, Legal Aid's camera caught Barta on tape entering the office and removing his camera-clock.
"It's a betrayal of trust," a Legal Aid lawyer said. "We're all colleagues; we work in close quarters, and there's an assumption of trust."
Barta, a graduate of Stuyvesant HS and Georgetown Law School, resigned immediately.
"We don't tolerate this kind of conduct," said Legal Aid Society spokeswoman Pat Bath. "We wanted him out as quickly as we could get him out."
On Barta's home computer from Kew Gardens, Queens, prosecutors said they found images of a female employee's "breasts and buttocks."
Barta faces up to four years in prison on felony charges of unlawful surveillance. He could also be disbarred.
Barta was one of 140 lawyers working in Legal Aid's offices at Church and Thomas streets.
He allegedly targeted younger women - some working their first legal jobs - who were known to dress in their offices. Insiders explained that the women either belonged to gyms, or kept their good suits in their offices.
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