Tiresome Or Bothersome Not Extortion

A Louisiana Hearing Committe has absolved an attorney of charges that he had violated a number of disciplinary rules in his dealings with an opposing party who was represented by the complainant.

The complaint alleged that the accused attorney had engaged in criminal conduct involving extortion in attempts to settle the matter against a parish council which had terminated his client. The correspondence indicated that Respondent

would seek offers and interest from, ot the release of tapes [allegedly with racial epithets] to, other entities such as specifically named media conglomerates, the Breaux Bridge branch of the NCAAP, the NCAPP, the Office of the Governor, the Board of Ethics, and local media. The Respondent’s last correspondence indicates his client wanted the matter resolved in 30 days, that that the current political and sensitive time in America would only exacerbate his claims that were being made, advanced and purportedly documentd by his client.

The committee

The fact that Respondent kept coming back may have been tiresome or bothersome, but it is clear that the tapes were not a threat.

(Mike Frisch)