Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Roberts

*914 OPINION AND ORDER

This disciplinary matter comes before the Court on the Kentucky Bar Association’s Petition for Reciprocal Discipline pursuant to SCR 3.435. On September 8, 1999, the Supreme Court of Ohio permanently disbarred the respondent, Thomas Wayne Roberts, from the practice of law in the state of Ohio because he unlawfully exercised control over funds mistakenly wired to his escrow account:

In October 1995, St. George Bank Limited (“St.George”), an Australian limited banking partnership, received a request from a customer to electronically transfer the equivalent of $8,225.07 in…