Court Opinion

ID: 9535837
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 06:45:17.279418+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:33:21.631687
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JUSTICE UNDERWOOD, dissenting: In my judgment any discipline short of disbarment is clearly inadequate and depreciates the seriousness of this respondent’s misconduct. For more than 30 years after he concedes his income became sufficient to require filing income tax returns, the respondent here failed to do so. That failure was compounded by the fact that when he finally decided to file he deliberately omitted from his returns the income on numerous bank accounts totaling about one-half million dollars and the dividends on significant amounts of corporate stock. No rent from the real estate he owned nor capital gain from the real estate he sold was ever reported. Despite respondent’s advanced age, the absence of other disciplinary infractions and the indications that respondent was community minded and well regarded by those who knew him, it seems to me that the 30-odd years of misconduct of a criminal nature aggravated by the false returns which were finally filed demand that respondent be disbarred. In re Lambert (1970), 47 Ill. 2d 223. JUSTICE MORAN joins in this dissent.