Many of those messages were vulgar, profane, abusive, included anti-Semitic remarks, and served no purpose other than to harass or burden their recipients. She charged an unreasonable fee by collecting a percentage of a six-figure recovery in an undisputed workers compensation matter when her fee was limited by statute to $100, and she engaged in a conflict of interest by providing financial assistance to her client that was not for court costs or expenses related to contemplated or pending litigation. The payments totaled over $136,000. The suspension is effective on June 8, 2021. Mr. Jacoby, who was licensed in 1988, was disbarred on consent. In September 2021, a Michigan jury found him guilty of three counts of criminal sexual conduct. Unless otherwise noted, the mandate of discipline issued immediately. Ms. Kieffer was licensed in Illinois in 2001 and in Iowa in 2002. She was the subject of a misdemeanor charge of attempt forgery. Between March and May 2018, Mr. Rueda converted over $15,000 in four client matters due in part to his failure to keep appropriate trust account records. A suspension until further order of the Court is an indefinite suspension which requires the suspended lawyer to petition for reinstatement after the fixed period of suspension ends. Mr. Cooper, who was licensed in 2002, was suspended for three years and until further order of the Court. Mr. McIntyre, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for 18 months and until further order of the Court. Mr. Buhl was licensed in Illinois in 1985 and in Connecticut in 1987. Mr. Weber, who was licensed in 1984, was disbarred. In July 2017, the Superior Court for the Judicial District of Middlesex, Connecticut, suspended him until 1) he successfully completed a two-year period of probation in a criminal matter for operating a motor vehicle under the influence of liquor or drugs, and 2) he is reinstated to the practice of law in Connecticut, where was administratively suspended for failure to pay a mandatory Client Security Fund fee. The suspension is effective on October 14, 2021. Additionally, he used $13,313 of that $43,601 for his own purposes without his client's authority. The suspension is effective on June 8, 2021. Mr. Stone, who was licensed in 1996, was disbarred on consent for neglecting six client matters, failing to refund approximately $16,000 in unearned fees, and making misrepresentations to clients, a court and the ARDC regarding those matters and his health. The suspension is effective on December 7, 2021. He failed to diligently pursue a workers' compensation and a personal injury matter and misrepresented the status of those matters to his clients. Reinstatement is not automatic and must be allowed by the Supreme Court of Illinois following a hearing before the ARDC Hearing Board. While acting as an Assistant States Attorney, he provided incomplete or false information to a judge in order to cause the judge to set a lower bond amount for an individual under arrest. The Supreme Court of Illinois imposed reciprocal discipline and suspended him until he is reinstated to the practice of law in Missouri, with the suspension stayed in its entirety by a term of probation subject to the conditions imposed in Missouri and continuing until he has satisfied his Missouri probation. The suspension is effective on February 7, 2023. Ms. Koroll, who was licensed in 2001, was suspended for six months, with the suspension stayed after 60 days in favor of a one-year period of conditional probation. While representing the client in a criminal matter, he did not respond to the client's family's requests for information about the case, collected an unreasonable fee of $9,000 when he made no court appearances and filed no pleadings or briefs, and returned only $2,000 of the fee. Mr. He was found guilty following a jury trial of two charges of knowingly making false statements to a financial institution and five charges of tax fraud. Mr. Fieweger was licensed in Illinois in 1987 and in Iowa in 1989. He failed to diligently handle a number of bankruptcy matters, did not adequately communicate with those clients, and made misrepresentations to those clients and his employer about the status of the cases. The Presiding Disciplinary Judge of the Supreme Court of Arizona entered an order suspending him, on a reciprocal basis, for 45 days, effective retroactively to July 15, 2020, based upon an order of discipline from the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States Department of Justice. The suspension is effective on February 11, 2021. The Superior Court later suspended Mr. Buhl for two years, retroactive to October 15, 2019, and required him to apply for reinstatement to the practice of law, for illegally operating a motor vehicle and failing to participate in his disciplinary proceedings. Mr. Moore did not participate in the disciplinary hearing. Mr. Kowalski, along with five other defendants, including his sister, attorney Jan R. Kowalski, was the subject of an eighteen-count second superseding indictment which charged that Mr. Kowalski committed the offenses of bankruptcy fraud, tax fraud, and conspiring to embezzle at least $29 million from a bank. Mr. Farwell, who was licensed in 1992, was suspended for ninety days. Ms. Calloway, who was licensed in 1994, was suspended for one year and until further order of the Court. Mr. Sherman was licensed in Illinois in 1967 and in Florida in 1975. Johnson, Matter Number: 2022PR00007, In re Jessica Rose Allen, Matter Number: 2021PR00055, In re Roni S. VanAusdall, Matter Number: 2021PR00039, In re Patrick Daley Thompson, Matter Number: 2022PR00014, In re Paul D. Buhl, Matter Number: 2021PR00075, In re Robert John Hankes, Matter Number: 2019PR00102, In re Brent Michael Wills, Matter Number: 2021PR00021, In re Timothy J. Fitzgerald, Matter Number: 2017PR00116, In re Michael Christopher Burr, Matter Number: 2021PR00004, In re Mark A. Hamill, Matter Number: 2021PR00016, In re Edward William Hynes, Matter Number: 2021PR00065, In re Jeffrey Marc Benjamin, Matter Number: 2021PR00052, In re William John Bowe, Matter Number: 2021PR00058, In re Patrick Jon Hudec, Matter Number: 2021PR00060, In re Thomas Michael Barrett, Matter Number: 2021PR00064, In re Jennifer Prager Sodaro, Matter Number: 2021PR00066, In re Robert Lee Officer, Matter Number: 2021PR00068, In re Sean Michael Liles, Matter Number: 2020PR00022, In re Leijuana Doss, Matter Number: 2021PR00022, In re Wanemond Smith, Matter Number: 2020PR00089, In re John P. Jacoby, Matter Number: 2021PR00067, In re Michael Leonard Loprieno, Matter Number: 2019PR00101, In re James Robert Mason, Matter Number: 2021PR00045, In re Todd William Sivia, Matter Number: 2021PR00015, In re Matthew Clay Piatt, Matter Number: 2021PR00024, In re Carrie Kooi, Matter Number: 2021PR00023, In re Barbara Julia Luther, Matter Number: 2021PR00025, In re Michael Bernard Potere, Matter Number: 2021PR00026, In re Cynthia Jean Koroll, Matter Number: 2016PR00079, In re Lisa Michelle Edgar, Matter Number: 2021PR00027, In re Craig Carnell Cunningham, Matter Number: 2019PR00019, In re Donald George Groble, Matter Number: 2020PR00081, In re Bryan S. Flangel, Matter Number: 2021PR00029, In re Andrew Martin Stroth, Matter Number: 2019PR00065, In re Alan Kent Wittig, Matter Number: 2021PR00033, In re John Anthony Ward, Matter Number: 2021PR00034, In re Henry A. Weber, Matter Number: 2020PR00087, In re James Mark McTighe, Matter Number: 2021PR00035, In re Efrain L. Sanchez, Matter Number: 2021PR00036, In re John George Steckel, Matter Number: 2021PR00038, In re Stephen Thomas Fieweger, Matter Number: 2021PR00042, In re Veronica Reyes, Matter Number: 2021PR00043, In re Peter J. Kovac, Matter Number: 2021PR00046, In re Edward Sergio Rueda, Matter Number: 2020PR00042, In re Brian David Pondenis, Matter Number: 2020PR00048, In re Mark Vincent Kelly, Matter Number: 2020PR00029, In re Barry Edward Blumenfeld, Matter Number: 2021PR00057, In re Stephanie Alexandra Gerstetter, Matter Number: 2021PR00050, In re Nathaniel Gordon, Matter Number: 2020PR00059, In re Jessica Lynn Jones, Matter Number: 2021PR00020, In re John Paul Paleczny, Matter Number: 2021PR00051, In re Jennifer Prager Sodaro, Matter Number: 2020PR00080, In re Jeffrey P. White, Matter Number: 2021PR00003, In re Hrant Norsigian Jr., Matter Number: 2021PR00005, In re Marie A. Durbin, Matter Number: 2021PR00006, In re Radford Reuben Raines III, Matter Number: 2021PR00007, In re Eric James Dale, Matter Number: 2021PR00009, In re Howard Randolph Baker Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00061, In re Michael Lee Henneberry, Matter Number: 2021PR00011, In re John Thomas Sheets, Matter Number: 2020PR00075, In re Dwight White, Matter Number: 2020PR00006, In re John L. Allen, Matter Number: 2021PR00013, In re William Briskin Kohn, Matter Number: 2019PR00008, In re Nikola Duric, Matter Number: 2015PR00052, In re Shelby Kanarish, Matter Number: 2021PR00014, In re Patrick J. O'Shea, Matter Number: 2020PR00037, In re Joseph C. Farwell, Matter Number: 2019PR00089, In re Lee Jackson, Matter Number: 2020PR00079, In re Joshua Nathan Levy, Matter Number: 2020PR00082, In re Rufus James Tate Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00085, In re Michael Jerome Moore, Matter Number: 2020PR00017, In re Ryne DeGrave, Matter Number: 2020PR00044, In re Jose Arvizu Bracamonte, Matter Number: 2021PR00001, In re Burton Douglas Stephens Jr., Matter Number: 2020PR00021, In re Oscar Antonio Gonzalez, Matter Number: 2018PR00066, In re Nathaniel Jay Pomrenze, Matter Number: 2019PR00059, In re John Henry Salgado, Matter Number: 2019PR00073, In re Christopher Steven Jones, Matter Number: 2020PR00067, In re John Christopher Carver, Matter Number: 2020PR00074, In re Jan R. Kowalski, Matter Number: 2020PR00077, In re Robert Michael Kowalski, Matter Number: 2020PR00078, In re William Layne Roberts, Matter Number: 2019PR00021, In re Jeffrey Bart Cooper, Matter Number: 2020PR00066, In re Vincenzo Field, Matter Number: 2018PR00015, In re Thomas Eric Wettermann, Matter Number: 2020PR00031, In re Franklin Joseph Furlett, Matter Number: 2019PR00028, In re Charles Andrew Cohn, Matter Number: 2018PR00109, In re Joan Arthetta Hill-McClain, Matter Number: 2017PR00100, In re Andrew Thomas Freund, Matter Number: 2020PR00070, In re Dean William O'Connor, Matter Number: 2020PR00071, In re Mary L. Lemp, Matter Number: 2020PR00072, In re Anish A. Parikh, Matter Number: 2019PR00005, In re David M. Jankura, Matter Number: 2018PR00052, In re Shirley Ruth Calloway, Matter Number: 2020PR00032, In re John Hudson McWard, Matter Number: 2020PR00008, Pending Motions for Disbarment on Consent. 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