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- Man, the California State Bar is really cracking down these days. Slip up just 810 times<\/a> and they’ll insist on disbarring you. Try to save them a bunch of work by stipulating to misconduct in 14 cases, and do you get any credit? No, it’s all “look at these other 796 complaints.” Please.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
That was the inimitable Kevin Underhill’s comment in reporting this wild story. Here, from a California state bar journal, is the actual news item. You’ll see the journal, probably appropriately, took it somewhat more grimly than did Underhill, whom I bless every day for his finely honed sense of the ridiculous: Attorney who drew 800-plus complaints agrees to disbarment<\/a>.<\/p>\n
And then in today’s Daily News, this hard copy headline, “Fake lawyer gets 50 yrs in $5M scam.” Here’s the very short, hugely startling item: Queens man sentenced up to 50 years for posing as a lawyer, investment adviser – NY Daily News<\/a>.<\/p>\n
I am now possessed of a burning desire to tell you all about a man I was once forced to meet who was an “investment adviser” and lawyer, although I suspect he was posing as one of those things, but I won’t. Tell you, that is.<\/p>\n
Instead, I’ll point out that this fake lawyer, Mohammed Rafikian, “convinced one victim to give him $3.2 million to invest.” All of you know never to give a “lawyer-investment adviser” your $3.2 million to invest, right?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
What on earth is going on out there? On earth? Today I picked up these two stories. The first is from Lowering the Bar and is mind-boggling: Assorted Stupidity #67 Man, the California State Bar is really cracking down these … Continue reading