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WA: Three year suspension for failing to file CTR; client ratted out lawyer

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Disbarment is the presumptive sanction for a conviction for failing to file a CTR. Here, mitigating circumstances led to a three year suspension. The client, a former lawyer, paid his criminal defense lawyer in cash in a paper bag, and the lawyer put the money in his home safe. Later, the client became a cooperator, and he recorded a phone call with the lawyer for the FBI. In re Disciplinary Proceeding Against Vanderveen, 166 Wash.2d 594, 211 P.3d 1008 (July 16, 2009): ¶ 6 In early May 2005, federal authorities informed White he was under investigation for involvement in Kesling's drug ring. White agreed to cooperate with authorities and recorded a phone conversation between him and Vanderveen in which they discussed the cash payments White made to Vanderveen and Vanderveen's failure to report them...continue to full post

Full post as published by Law Of Criminal Defense on September 23, 2009 (boomark / email).