Committee on Professional Ethics & Conduct of the Iowa State Bar Ass'n v. Piazza

REYNOLDSON, Chief Justice.

This is an attorney disciplinary case arising out of respondent’s failure to file Iowa income tax returns. Upon de novo review of our Grievance Commission’s report, we suspend his license indefinitely with no possibility of reinstatement for twelve months from the date of this decision. 1

At the hearing the complainant, Committee on Professional Ethics and Conduct, produced a convincing preponderance of the evidence to support the Grievance Commission’s subsequent finding that the respondent, John J. Piazza, violated Iowa’s revenue laws by failing to file Iowa income…