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Attorney Scott Spooner of Springfield, IL; stupid, greedy, penny pinching crook
Unfortunately, the Illinois Supreme Court gifted Scott Spooner with a law license in 1981 after graduating from Drake Univ. Law School. Previously, Scott graduated scum laude from Western Illinois University in 1977.
After several years of undistinguished work as an assistant Attorney General (aka, gopher/lackey) for the State of Illinois, Scott was hired by the Heyl Royster law firm in Springfield in 1989. In 1994 Scotty became a full fledged partner in the firm.
In September 2009, the Illinois Bar Association charged Scotty with an assortment of egregious misconduct, which included an attempt to defraud his partners and their clients.
In proving he was a greedy (penny ante) thief, Scotty submitted false billing statements while acting as lead defense counsel in a medical malpractice case. When he was unable to meet with Dr. Davison (expert witness) to prepare him for an upcoming deposition, Scotty Baby decided to engage in a little fraud by billing his firm and client for the following expenses:
It was later proven that the receipt for the $50 taxi fare was a total sham. In fact, Scotty never traveled to or from Park Ridge on September 10, 2008. However, based on Scotty’s false/fabricated claims, the law firm reimbursed him for the phantom taxi fare and legal fees.
Scott’s sham $2,040 legal fee claim was based on him falsely stating he spent 8 hours at $170 an hour to meet with Dr. William Davidson on September 11, 2008 and 4 additional hours to return from this “phantom” meeting.
The Bar Association investigators specifically ruled that “the cab receipt and statements contained in his [Spooner’s] expense form, his time records, and his letter of September 15, 2008, were false.
For engaging in fraud (criminal fraud) the enablers at the Bar Association along with their counterparts sitting on the Illinois Supreme Court punished Scotty by gifting him with a complimentary censure.
Scotty’s current Employment
Despite his criminal conduct in attempting to defraud his partners at Heyl Royster Voelker & Allen, these buffoons (my apologies to buffoons) have allowed Scotty to remain a partner as we speak (ca. 12/2010).
Do ya really think that this was the first time that Scotty screwed a client of the firm by billing for hours he never worked and/or for expenses he never incurred? Would you retain someone of Scotty’s ilk under these circumstances?
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