Court Opinion

ID: 9632511
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 11:17:46.804372+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:44:14.892664
License: Public Domain

RICHARDSON, J.—I respectfully dissent.
The record before us discloses that petitioner conceived and implemented a complex and fraudulent plan for financial gain to himself. The plan was shot through and through with dishonesty and deceit. Petitioner directed the arrangement for deceptive medical bills, reporting fictitious treatments for nonexistent clients. He counselled his clients to conceal the true facts, advising them to testify falsely under oath and knowingly to take steps to lend authenticity to what he personally knew were dishonest representations. In other instances, if *571he did not counsel perjury, he remained silent with full knowledge that it was being committed by his client.
Petitioner suggests no mitigating circumstances. He has been disciplined previously. For a substantial period of time, criminal activity and moral turpitude have pervaded his conduct in a manner inconsistent both with his obligations as a lawyer and with the most minimal standards of ethics and professional integrity. In my opinion, petitioner should be disbarred.