Matter of Discipline of Johnson

Although the respondent Richard C. Johnson admitted service of a petition in which the Director of Minnesota Lawyers Professional Responsibility- alleged he had violated terms of a previously imposed and existing attorney discipline probation by additionally committing during the course of that probation acts constituting violation of the income tax laws — in and of themselves constituting attorney misconduct— he failed to either deny the allegations by answer or otherwise to controvert the charges contained in the petition. Such failure bears the consequence that all of the petition’s…