Toledo Bar Ass'n v. Lichota

Under Section 5 (a) of Rule XVIII of the Rules of Practice, misconduct includes “* * * any violation of the Canons of Professional Ethics * * *” and “* * * conviction of a crime involving moral turpitude * * The crime of “having devised and intended to devise a scheme and artifice to defraud and for obtaining money by false and fraudulent pretenses, representations, and promises, and knowingly conspired to cause the mails to be used for the purpose of executing said scheme to defraud” is, as a matter of law, a crime involving moral turpitude and constitutes misconduct under Section 5 (a) *219of…