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Posted on 09/22/2008 8:15:57 AM PDT by kennedy
CHICAGO - An attorney has been suspended for more than a year for accepting nude dances from a stripper as partial payment for the legal fees she owed him.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission on Thursday said Scott Robert Erwin will begin serving a 15-month suspension for misconduct next month.
Erwin, who practices in the northern Illinois city of DeKalb, and his client mutually agreed that she'd perform nude dances for him in his office as a way to reduce her legal fees, the commission's report said. He credited her for $534 toward his bill for services of various legal matters, the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
pics?
What’s illegal about payment in kind?
Ok , just pay your bill in coke ./sarc
Of course this is really sleazy. But how is it unlawful or a violation of the ethical rules? If nude dancing is a lawful for profit activity, why can the lawyer not barter for this exchange, sleazy though it is?
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“What’s illegal about payment in kind?”
I’ll guess that he failed to pay income tax on the “dance income”.
what’s the issue?????
He should have paid for the lap dances, then she returns the money to him as wages earned?
Hey, it’s her profession. Lotza wimmin in similar work. /s
Do I know you ?
You're assuming that she would have reported his money as taxable income, and that he would also have reported her money as taxable income. They didn't, and that's the only thing that has everybody ticked off.
He is only a lawyer.
Thanks to people like Edwards and Obama we have all seen that it doesn’t require a lot of brain power to meet minimum requirements for that distinction.
So, how was he supposed to know something like this would be construed by his enemies as being illegal?
Anyway, he was just voting PRESENT.
**What’s illegal about payment in kind?**
Here’s where the Libertarian in me comes out...
If a SCUM sucking, bottom dwelling, cold blooded (my apologies to the CATFISH of America) Thinks that’s valuable enough to pay or his services... let him Go for it!
It’s not like we’ve had “Lawyers” twist the truth .. like ... depends in what the definition of IS ... is!
The barter system is not dead!
Maybe he’s a Community Organizer and she’s doing Community Service?
I missed the part about it being a CHICAGO Lawyer.
I rest my case.
Wouldn't that have to have involved prostitution, not simply stripping.
You mean that’s not “legal tender”!
He’s lucky she is a stripper. If he tried to do this with a woman who was not in that “business”, he would have been disbarred.
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