Attorney Grievance Comm'n of Md. v. Blair

This attorney discipline proceeding involves a lawyer who, in the words of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, "concocted and executed a scheme to launder drug proceeds that he obtained from a client." United States v. Blair , 661 F.3d 755 , 759 (4th Cir. 2011) (per curiam), cert. denied , 567 U.S. 905 , 132 S.Ct. 2740 , 183 L.Ed.2d 615 (2012). In its opinion disposing of the first appeal in the lawyer's criminal case, the Fourth Circuit set forth the facts underlying the lawyer's convictions for money laundering, witness tampering, making a false statement, and willful…