United States v. Victor C. Bynoe

COFFIN, Chief Judge.

Appellant pleaded guilty to a one count information charging that on July 6, 1974, while an employee of the United States government, appellant acted as an attorney before the Immigration and Naturalization Service in a proceeding in which the United States had a direct and substantial adverse interest. See 18 U.S.C. § 205(2). At a dispositional hearing on February 8, 1977, the district court indicated that it did not “consider this a matter that would require any disciplinary action [since there was] obviously not a pattern here.” The U. S. Attorney, later in the hearing,…