In Re Shumate

The respondent attorney was convicted of four counts of the offenses of embezzling money which came into his charge as Trustee in Bankruptcy of the United States District Court, Western District of Kentucky, and knowingly and fraudulently concealing money from the Trustee in Bankruptcy and from the creditors in the bankruptcy proceedings, in violation of 18 U.S.C.A. §§ 152, 153. Pursuant to the conviction, on his not guilty plea, respondent was sentenced to four separate terms of imprisonment of eighteen months each; the sentences were made concurrent by the order of the United States…