Disciplinary Counsel v. King

{¶ 1} Respondent, James C. King of Lima, Ohio, Attorney Registration No. 0000774, was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1967. In January 1990, we suspended respondent from the practice of law in Ohio for one year for violating DR 1-102(A)(4) (forbidding conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation). Allen Cty. Bar Assn. v. King (1990), 48 Ohio St.3d 8, 548 N.E.2d 238. That case arose from respondent’s federal conviction for filing false individual income tax returns in 1984 and 1985. Id. In February 1991, we reinstated respondent to the practice of law in Ohio. Allen Cty. Bar…