The "Keffals" complaints are IMO in a different category. I'm not sure if Nick even had to write a response on those. Those complaints are from randos about subjects that have nothing to with the legal profession or Nick's conduct in the profession. I really don't think those complaints are going anywhere and I think the agency moving those complaints to the bottom of the pile is a reasonable thing to do.
The Schnieder complaint is much more complicated and will be treated more seriously. That is why he had to do a formal response.
You are misinformed. The initial complaints were indeed thrown out without Nick having to write a response. But then he did the stream where showed the names of the complainants, having blacked out their addresses, but said he intended to post the unredacted documents on his Locals.
IMO he probably could have gotten away without anything happening to him if he just posted the documents without comment, but I think his comments in the stream in question were probably what got him in trouble in terms of an investigation being opened.
In November he disclosed that the OLPR was investigating him over this. I had missed this clip because it's age-gated on YT - here's a Rumble clip from Elissa;
https://rumble.com/v1tfwpf-rekieta-law-is-under-investigation-lets-rant.html
As of the start of January, Nick said that he hadn't received anything back from the OLPR about whether the investigation was open or closed.
Great point! I keep mentioning it too. Whatever one thinks of the Keffals mess there were multiple ethics complaints made against him months ago which - as far as we know - are outstanding. The OLRP is either lazy or very smart by sitting on this. Atp, I'm leaning into the latter... and now Schnieder is in the mix. I'm sure there are many well-connected MN lawyers who have issues with his conduct writ large. And Nick keeps poking the bear.
The problem is for Nick is that this conduct is now becoming a pattern. Nick gets drunk on his stream and says something he might regret later, specifically something where the OLPR feels that they have cause to open an investigation.
I am not sure why the Ethics Board are taking so long, but my default is to assume incompetency. Look at how the Homosexual Trouser Appeal went. 2 years for 'You fucked up your filings'. I will wait to speculate more.
That's an appeal. Different situation.
He had to have announced he was under investigation by November 10th since that's the date of Elissa's clip. From my reading a few months ago most ethics investigations (those farmed out to the local District Ethics Committee) are supposed to be completed within 3 months. If it goes over that time they have to tell the OLPR why they are going over the designated time. There's also the possibility that the OLPR kept this investigation for themselves, which I don't think would have even that soft deadline, but that would probably be worse for Rekieta if true, because it means the people at the top are taking a special interest in him.
It's possible that they closed the investigation without discipline, but if they did, I presume Nick would announce that and take a victory lap. I believe there is also the possibility of private discipline where Nick is admonished and told not to do it again. But I'm almost certain Nick would announce that too ("I'm being silenced!" is liquid gold for a content creator like Nick), and any private discipline would also be disclosed to any complainant(s) who would presumably leak that themselves if Nick didn't. So I don't think that happened either.
So my guess would be that it might still be open? If I had to guess, whoever got assigned this has basically gone "WTF is this stupid online drama" and put it on the back burner and never dealt with it. But we really have no idea.