In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceedings Against Fennig

¶ 1. We review the recommendation of the referee that Attorney Robert B. Fennig be publicly reprimanded as discipline for his professional misconduct while acting as a trustee. Attorney Fennig committed fraud in the course of administering a trust and was found guilty following a court trial of having committed fraud on a bank and fraud on the Illinois court having jurisdiction over the trust. Attorney Fennig had executed notes by which a development corporation set up by the trust's sole beneficiary and of which the trust itself was sole shareholder obtained loans to provide operating…