Some anonymous figure has filed a complaint with the Illinois Bar Association, charging Obama with:
a) making a statement of material fact in connection with a bar application that the applicant knows to be false; b) committing a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s fitness to practice law; c) engaging in conduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; d) engaging in conduct prejudicial to the administration of justice; and e) engaging in conduct which brings the courts or the legal profession into disrepute.
The complaint charges Obama with not admitting his drug use on his application.
18. Have you ever, either as an adult or juvenile, been cited,
arrested, accused, formally or informally, or convicted of any
violation of any law other than moving traffic violations.
In response to question 18, it is understood the Respondent answered
“no.” The Respondent did not disclose his multiple drug use occurring
through his time in high school and college.
Interesting. One wonders how the anonymous complaint filer knows that Obama answered “no.”
This part of the complaint is almost an “in-joke”:
The following individuals have personal knowledge of, or access to
documentation of these facts:
William Shaheen, Esquire
Shaheen & Gordon, P.A.
P.O. Box 977
140 Washington Street, 2nd Floor
Dover, NH 03821-0977
(603) 749-1838 fax
(603) 749-5000 phone
wshaheen@shaheengordon.com
Shaheen, of course, is the husband of the former governor of New Hampshire, a Hillary supporter who wondered aloud in front of reporters if Obama ever dealt drugs.
Readers may recall my earlier questions about Obama’s bar application. But in case anyone’s wondering, no, I didn’t file the complaint.
UPDATE: A couple of legal-minded readers point out that the question on the bar application is pretty specifically about run-ins with the law. Unless young Obama ran into the law over his use of cocaine, etc., he can honestly answer “no.” And if Obama has some long-lost, long-sealed, conviction for drug possession or distribution, are we to believe that the Hillary Clinton campaign never found it? Theoretically possible, but not terribly plausible.