Matter of Riddle

DISCIPLINARY ACTION

Today we find that the respondent, the duly-elected prosecutor of Crawford County, Indiana, engaged in acts constituting ghost employment by hiring a lawyer as chief deputy prosecuting attorney of that county, assigning no prosecutorial duties or responsibilities to that person, and using the state statutory salary for that position to compensate that person for working in the respondent’s private law office. As such, the conduct violated the Rules of Professional Conduct for Attorneys at Law and warrants the respondent’s disbarment.

This disciplinary action commenced with…