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Attorney Michael W. Seidel of Bend, OR; extortionist, cheater 
The state of Oregon provided Michael W. Seidel with a law license in 1987.
The Oregon State Bar found Michael guilty of the following misconduct:
Michael represented Amy Clemens in a divorce matter that resulted in the court entering an order prohibiting either party from encumbering or disposing of any property without each party’s consent or by court order.
Subsequently, Amy learned that he husband had cancelled her health insurance coverage and had not paid court-ordered child support. On the same day, Michael wrote a letter to the husband’s lawyer that threatened to make public to his employer, the district attorney, and others that he had sent a sexually explicit picture of himself to a “swingers” magazine and had supplied marijuana to children. The letter also threatened a picket of the courthouse where the husband worked and letters to local newspapers if he didn’t pay his child support obligation and reinstate Amy’s insurance coverage.
Michael’s conduct explicitly fits the criminal definition of extortion; however, because Attorney Misfits in Oregon are held to a much lower standard of conduct they everyone else, he was never criminally charged.
And this wasn’t Michael’s 1st bite at the Attorney Misfit Apple Tree. Several years earlier he received a complimentary 120-day suspension of his law license for engaging in a variety of misconduct.
As a consequence of his misconduct, the apologists for Attorney Misfits at the Oregon State Bar punished Michael by gifting him with a complimentary six-month suspension of his law license.
As we speak (ca. June 2012) practices law with Albertazzi Law Firm at 44 NW Irving Avenue in Bend, Oregon.
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