In Re Crooks

Opinion

THE COURT.

We review the augmented report and recommendations of the Review Department of the State Bar Court of California (review department) that John Elbert Crooks’s (Crooks) violation of 18 United States Code section 371 be deemed to have involved moral turpitude and that Crooks be disbarred from the practice of law. After reviewing the record and Crooks’s contentions, we adopt the recommendation of the review department.

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Facts and Proceedings Below

Crooks was admitted to the practice of law in California in 1933. On June 14, 1984, Crooks was convicted in the United States District…