felecia187 the lawyer is Garth Bailey he got involved in a Ponzi scheme this is how it works a company was trying to get people to invest in there company by saying that there company had $40,000,000 in bonds now what happened next is that the lawyer thought something was wrong with the bonds so he had them checked out and found out that they had no value so instead of reporting this to the R.C.M.P he turned a blind eye to what was really going on so when the bonds were exposed to be fake then the R.C.M.P charged Garth Bailey with fraud and the judge gave him nine years for his part in this Ponze scheme now how long is he disbarred for this all i do not know but this all happened in Calgary Alberta Canada Thursday October 9 2014 in the Calgary Sun , God bless .