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The Wisconsin Supreme Court imposed reciprocal discipline of a three-year suspension for misconduct sanctioned in Illinois
On September 21, 2022, the Supreme Court of Illinois suspended Attorney Gomez’s Illinois law license for three years. The Illinois court found that Attorney Gomez committed professional misconduct by sending numerous threatening and harassing emails to other attorneys. Attorney Gomez did not notify OLR of the Illinois suspension within 20 days of its effective date.
The Illinois Hearing Board recounted the emails
On April 21, 2019, Easter Sunday, Schmeltz received an email from Respondent that was sent at 8:01 a.m. It stated in relevant part:
Happy Easter, Schmatlz [sic] you are being referred to the FBI today. You are insane to have done this, clear attempted obstruction. Maybe you should watch the news, obstruction is a big topic. I will also motion this up for her Honor to weigh in re [sic] protective order. What country do you live in? Here, a subpoena is inviolate and you violated the authority of the Court.
You sir are despicable and unfit to practice law and I pledge to bring the full weight of Justice down on you.
Disgusting
And
I will not pursue you if you self report them [sic] plea to what you did immediately. RICO allows parallel prosecution but you and Barnes weren’t and are not my primary Targets [sic], you just fd [sic] up big time and i [sic] report active crooks i [sic] run across if they do not abate on the shot across the bow.
You have quadrupled down and again it appears you have put economic self interest ahead of your client’s. You will be reported of course that cannot be settled it isn’t my claim.
Resign and plea to FBI and i [sic] don’t name and flay you on a public pillory for all to see so as to discourage scum like yourself.
In response to the recipient’s firm’s general counsel at Barnes & Thornburg when asked to stop
On April 23, 2019, Respondent sent Badger the following email:
With zero respect, idiot, I told you not to contact me. I am a plaintiff. You are barred, and you just violated the Rules again.
You obey no rules or no one. I remember what scum BT is from 10 years of suing scum polluters and then having outhouse counsel run up the bill in unethical manner until i [sic] had to leave the sharks in the room repeating themselves to each other.
You are entitled to be heard. Once.
Dont [sic] pull your crap on me. Schmuckz [sic] and your firm are scum of the Earth and need to be abated. Under RICO I am private AG and doing the abating, since you seem very cozy with the USA here and since this office seems frozen, except for letting crooks like Shock [sic] get off and then allow him to attack a fellow AUSA who wanted to do the right thing and prosecute that piece of poop. BT is in my opinion a scumbag firm as evidenced by the repeated flaunting of the Rules whilst impugning a named party for not following them.
You will be pursued for harassing me after i [sic] told you to bug off.
Get outside Counsel. Be an Attorney [sic] not a thug.
DO NOT CONTACT ME DIRECTLY IDIOT
(Mike Frisch)