In Re Disciplinary Proceedings Against Wentzel

Attorney disciplinary proceeding; attorney’s license suspended.

The referee recommended that the license of Attorney William A. Wentzel be suspended for 60 days as discipline for professional misconduct consisting of failing to return a security deposit to a couple who had sought to lease his home, using funds in his client trust account for his personal use and permitting the account to become overdrawn, failing to provide a letter or affidavit to a judge in support of his claim of illness to obtain an adjournment of a trial date in a client’s criminal matter and misrepresenting to a client…