In Re Beatty

The Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission filed a two-count complaint on April 6, 1984, charging William Starnes Beatty, Morris B. Chapman, John Gordon Carlson, Lowell Thomas La-kin, William Wallace Schooley, Jr., and Leon G. Scrog-gins, with violating the Illinois Code of Professional Responsibility.

The first count' of the complaint charged basically that the six respondents violated specified disciplinary rules by their conduct through a political committee that allegedly distributed false statements concerning two judges who are judges of the third judicial…