Opinion ID: 1861917
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Heading: the discipline imposed by the complaints tribunal is excessive, punitive and unreasonable under the circumstances.

Text: The respondent contends that the discipline recommended by the tribunal is excessive, punitive and unreasonable under the circumstances. Without being repetitive, we emphasize again that the conduct and acts of respondent include dishonesty, fraud, deceit, misrepresentations and moral turpitude. It is unconscionable that an attorney and member in good standing of the Mississippi State Bar would scheme to defraud two reputable firms of attorneys in the State of Louisiana, Board of Bar Admissions of the State of Louisiana, the Mississippi State Bar, and the law school from which he graduated, and, in furtherance of that scheme, commit the fraudulent and deceitful acts, which are set forth in the facts of this opinion. The attorney conduct in Miss. State Bar v. Moyo, 525 So.2d 1289 (Miss. 1988), was comparable to the present case. Moyo was disbarred. Numerous other attorneys have been disbarred for lesser misconduct. See Foote v. Miss. State Bar, 517 So.2d 561 (Miss. 1987). We are of the opinion that the Complaints Tribunal acted properly in entering a default judgment against the respondent and in recommending disbarment. Therefore, the recommendation of the Complaints Tribunal is accepted and approved, and the conditional judgment of disbarment entered by the Complaints Tribunal is affirmed. APPROVED AND AFFIRMED. HAWKINS and DAN M. LEE, P.J., and PRATHER, ROBERTSON, SULLIVAN, ANDERSON, PITTMAN and BLASS, JJ., concur.