Online Crimes Draw Disbarment

A consent order of disbarment has been accepted in North Carolina General Court of Justice on these admitted facts

By using the personal information of victims to falsely register online accounts in the names of those victims, impersonating those victims in sexually explicit communications with others, obtaining and electronically transmitting sexually explicit images of those victims to others without their consent, using fraudulent online accounts to repeatedly text those victims with the intent to harass them and cause them substantial emotional distress, and engaging in the federal felony offenses of Aggravated Identity Theft and Stalking, Love engaged in criminal acts that reflect adversely on his honesty, trustworthiness or fitness as a lawyer in violation of Rule 8.4(b) of the Rules of Professional Conduct and engaged in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation in violation of Rule 8.4(c) of the Rules of Professional Conduct.

The appended Indictment alleges

As a licensed attorney. LOVE had access to investigative tools, such as databases utilized for corporate security and law enforcement with access to names, addresses, and telephone numbers of individuals.

LOVE created various online accounts and aliases, posing as his then-wife (hereinafter ”Victim 1″). ex-wife (hereinafter “Victim 2”), and other known and unknown women and men. Using these personas, LOVE expressed interest in sexual activity with numerous men (hereinafter “Individuals 1 through 18”).

(Mike Frisch)