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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Apr. 19, 2014

State Bar judge: Former federal agency chief should be suspended from practice

Scott Bloch should be suspended from practice in California for 30 days and serve two years of probation based on his misdemeanor conviction of destroying government property, a State Bar Court judge has declared.


By Don J. DeBenedictis


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A former chief of the federal agency that protects government whistleblowers should be suspended from practice in California for 30 days and serve two years of probation based on his misdemeanor conviction of destroying government property, a State Bar Court judge has declared.


The judge ruled that while Scott J. Bloch's action in having several government computers wiped clean of all data ...

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