Title: The Florida Bar v. Rambo

State: florida

Issuer: Florida Supreme Court

Document:

530 So. 2d 926 (1988)
THE FLORIDA BAR, Complainant,
v.
Charles B. RAMBO, Respondent.
No. 70045.

Supreme Court of Florida.
September 15, 1988.
*927 John F. Harkness, Jr., Executive Director and John T. Berry, Staff Counsel, Tallahassee, and Richard A. Greenberg, Bar Counsel, Steve Rushing, Branch Staff Counsel, and Bonnie L. Mahon, Asst. Staff Counsel, Tampa, for complainant.
B. Anderson Mitcham of Mitcham, Weed, Barbas, Allen & Morgan, Tampa, for respondent.
PER CURIAM.
This disciplinary proceeding is before the Court on the complaint of The Florida Bar and the findings and recommendations set forth in a referee's report. We have jurisdiction. Art. V, § 15, Fla. Const.
The referee's findings of fact are as follows:
Upon these findings, the referee determined that respondent had violated the following Disciplinary Rules of the Code of Professional Responsibility: 1-102(A)(3) (engaging in illegal conduct involving moral turpitude); 1-102(A)(4) (engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation); 1-102(A)(6) (engaging in conduct that adversely reflects upon his fitness to practice law); 7-102(A)(3) (concealing or knowingly failing to disclose that which he is required by law to reveal); and 7-102(A)(7) (counseling or assisting his client in conduct that the lawyer knew to be illegal or fraudulent).
The referee recommended that respondent be suspended from the practice of law for a period of thirty months and thereafter until he shall prove his rehabilitation as provided under rule 3-5.1(e), Rules Regulating The Florida Bar.
The Florida Bar argues that the recommended discipline is an inadequate sanction for respondent's conduct and seeks disbarment. Respondent has filed a "Notice of Intent not to File Reply Brief."[*]
We agree with The Florida Bar that suspension is an inadequate penalty for respondent's conduct. As we said in The *928 Florida Bar v. Riccardi, 264 So. 2d 5, 6 (Fla. 1972):
Accordingly, we hereby disbar respondent Charles B. Rambo effective immediately.
Costs of this proceeding are also assessed against respondent. Judgment for costs in the amount of $1,313.70 is hereby entered against Charles B. Rambo, for which sum let execution issue.
It is so ordered.
EHRLICH, C.J., and OVERTON, McDONALD, SHAW, BARKETT, GRIMES and KOGAN, JJ., concur.
[*]  Respondent asserts that a reply brief is unnecessary because he "intends to resign on or about November 1, 1988." This opinion renders any resignation moot.