Case Name: Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Tsanges
Court: Supreme Court of Ohio
Jurisdiction: Ohio
Decision Date: 1990-02-21
Citations: 49 Ohio St. 3d 57
Docket Number: No. 89-1150
Parties: Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Tsanges.
Judges: Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Holmes, Douglas, Wright, H. Brown and Resnick, JJ., concur.
Reporter: Ohio State Reports, Third Service
Volume: 49
Pages: 57–59

Head Matter:
Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Tsanges.
[Cite as Disciplinary Counsel v. Tsanges (1990), 49 Ohio St. 3d 57.]
(No. 89-1150
Submitted November 7, 1989
Decided February 21, 1990.)
J. Warren Bettis, disciplinary counsel, and Karen B. Hull, for relator.
Robert E. Sanders and Martin J. Huelsmann, for respondent.

Opinion:
Per Curiam.
We have reviewed the record in this matter and agree that respondent's conduct warrants the most severe penalty available. After reviewing tapes of a telephone conversation between respondent and a co-conspirator, a federal appeals court concluded that she seemed to be "running scared," aware that the authorities were closing in, and that the conversation "simply is not the conversation of an innocent, uninvolved person." The federal jury apparently believed the testimony of a co-conspirator that respondent masterminded these crimes, even in the face of her testimony denying culpability. Consequently, we permanently disbar respondent from the practice of law. Costs taxed to respondent.
Judgment accordingly.
Moyer, C.J., Sweeney, Holmes, Douglas, Wright, H. Brown and Resnick, JJ., concur.