This disbarred attorney was reinstated in the District of Columbia with the full support of Disciplinary Counsel 

In 2000, a Virginia jury convicted Mr. Sabo of attempted malicious wounding, a felony, in violation of Va.Code §§ 18.2–26 and 18.2–51 (1994). The conviction was upheld by a divided panel of the Court of Appeals of Virginia. Sabo v. Commonwealth, 38 Va.App. 63, 561 S.E.2d 761 (Va.2002). Mr. Sabo served twelve months in prison and paid a fine of $1,628. Mr. Sabo conceded that the crime of which he was convicted involved an act of moral turpitude and, in 2003, consented to disbarment. In re Sabo, 828 A.2d 168 (D.C.2003) (per curiam).

The jury heard evidence that Mr. Sabo cut the brake lines of a vehicle owned by his former girlfriend, Heather Nicole Lawrence, days after she ended their relationship. When Ms. Lawrence next drove her vehicle, she lost control and hit a fence, a low brick wall, and a tree. No one sustained injury. From trial through this reinstatement proceeding, Mr. Sabo has maintained his innocence.¹

Yet Mr. Sabo freely acknowledges that his relationship with Ms. Lawrence, which spanned the period when he was separated from his first wife, was “destructive,” “stormy,” and “mutually abusive.” He contends that his struggle with depression and other mental health challenges took him “down a path, down a spiraling tube” that brought about the events that led to his conviction and that it took him years of therapy to “understand truly how bad off [he] was at the time.”² Following his release from prison in 2003 until the present time, Mr. Sabo has been receiving mental health treatment, including psychotherapy and medication management.

Since his release, Mr. Sabo has built a small but well-regarded home renovation business and has become very active in his church. However, his positive conduct is tempered by a regrettable incident at a Home Depot store in Fairfax, Virginia. On April 19, 2009, Mr. Sabo attempted to return a special-order item that arrived damaged. Upon being accused of damaging the item after receiving it, Mr. Sabo engaged in an argument with the store clerk. The altercation led to Mr. Sabo’s receiving a refund for the item as well as for other items he had not yet purchased. He was later arrested on a charge of larceny by false pretense but ultimately placed on probation in a program geared toward first-time offenders. Upon satisfaction of the terms of his probation, including 75 hours of community service, the charge was dismissed.

Via Raw Story comes this

A high-ranking Interior Department officials compared Parkland shooting survivors to Nazis and claimed the massacre was a “false flag” operation.

Kevin Sabo was promoted last year to acting chief of the Office of Congressional and Legislative Affairs at the Bureau of Reclamation, but he continues to post conspiracy theories and other inflammatory content on his personal Facebook page, reported Talking Points Memo.

He also shared a lengthy post Feb. 25 that claimed the Broward County sheriff, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Shultz (D-FL), the FBI and the CIA conspired to stage the shooting using “Project MKUltra mind control techniques.”

“Did any students die by friendly fire? Was Cruz a lone gunman or not a gunman at all?” reads the post, which also refers to Pizzagate and QAnon conspiracies.

Sabo, whose Facebook page lists his government title, also shared anti-Muslim content and accused Democrats of paying Inauguration Day protesters to riot.

“Civil servants are guaranteed First Amendment rights to communicate their own views on their own time on their own social media sites, even if some would find those views disagreeable or the primary sources erroneous,” said public affairs chief Dan DuBray.

Sabo ran unsuccessfully for a Virginia House seat in 1992, and he has worked in government off an on since the late 1990s and was hired in 2016 as a budget analyst at the Interior Department.

He was convicted in 2000 of attempted malicious wounding for cutting the brakes to an ex-girlfriend’s car, and the felony got him disbarred three years later.

Sabo asked to be readmitted to the District of Columbia bar in 2011 but was denied due to pleading guilty to larceny by false pretenses for a theft from Home Depot, although those charges were dismissed after he paid a fine and completed community service.

An appeals court overruled the bar the following year and reinstated Sabo after being persuaded that he was a “changed man.”

Our earlier coverage of the reinstatement. (Mike Frisch)