In Re Witt

On July 21, 1988, the Administrator of the Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission (ARDC) filed a three-count complaint charging that respondent, Alphonse Frank Witt, had violated various provisions of the Illinois Code of Professional Responsibility. (107 Ill. 2d R. 1 — 101 et seq. (superseded by Rules of Professional Conduct, 134 Ill. 2d R. 1.1 et seq.).) Specifically, counts I and II of the complaint alleged that respondent, while sitting as a judge in the circuit court of Lake County, had importuned loans from an attorney who practiced before him and that respondent failed to…