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Opinion

Office of Disciplinary Counsel v. Preate

  • 557 Pa. 4
  • 731 A.2d 129
  • 1999 Pa. LEXIS 1782
Court
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Filed
Jun 23, 1999
Status
Published
On the bench
Cappy, Castille, Flaherty, Newman, Nigro, Saylor, Zarpala
Cited by
5 cases
Authority
More cited than 72.1%

suspending, rather than disbarring, attorney who was charged with mail fraud for soliciting, either directly or indirectly, illegal cash contributions and filing false and materially misleading campaign finance reports while either the District Attorney of Lackawanna County or the Attorney General

How later courts described this case

  • suspending, rather than disbarring, attorney who was charged with mail fraud for soliciting, either directly or indirectly, illegal cash contributions and filing false and materially misleading campaign finance reports while either the District Attorney of Lackawanna County or the Attorney General
  • attorney received five-year suspension for accepting illegal campaign contributions while district attorney and later as Pennsylvania Attorney General and filing false election reports to conceal that behavior

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

ORDER

PER CURIAM:

Upon consideration of the Report and Recommendations of the Disciplinary Board dated July 14, 1998, and following oral argument, it is hereby

ORDERED that Ernest D. Preate, Jr., be and he is suspended from the Bar of this Commonwealth for a period of five years retroactive to August 16, 1995, and he shall comply with all the provisions of Rule 217, Pa.R.D.E. It is further ORDERED that respondent shall pay costs to the Disciplinary board pursuant to Rule 208(g), Pa.R.D.E.

Justice NIGRO files a dissenting statement in which Justice ZAPPALA joins.

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