Kentucky Bar Ass'n v. Reynolds

OPINION AND ORDER

Ronnie Wayne Reynolds1 pleaded guilty in federal court to felony charges arising *311out of an extortion scheme in which he charged exorbitant legal fees to clients facing criminal charges and then split the fees with the Whitley County Sheriff, who had procured the clients for Reynolds. Reynolds, who is currently serving a sentence for that conviction, was immediately suspended from the practice of law upon his conviction. The Board of Governors of the Kentucky Bar Association now moves for Reynolds’s permanent disbarment from the practice of law in Kentucky. For the reasons set…