This lawyer is about to go in to court today to explain why he lied to a federal judge no less than four times, and was also accused by another of his clients of forging their signature and submitting it to the court.
Who knows what he’s told or has not told this client.
I think you're underselling it a bit. He's going before a federal judge, not even for the lie itself but for failure to provide documentation to prove that lie. He's facing increasingly severe monetary sanctions and possibly imprisonment tomorrow even if he actually could provide a death certificate that substantiated his earlier claims. We haven't seen the full extent of the blowback from that lie yet even if he comes clean today there's still more to come.
Oh yeah. I’m not a lawyer myself but when I’ve read about other shady lawyers the message is always seemingly the same: justice can be slow but when it comes - especially at the hands of a federal judge who you lied to, multiple times - you should be happy if the only outcome is that you never get to practice law again.
I only want to highlight the client may have very little to do with the case and what’s happened with it so far, as everything this lawyer has done is out of the bounds of the legal system. I don’t think the average person is equipped to deal with the impact of a lawyer who is themselves a criminal.
Who knows what he’s told or has not told this client.