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Attorney Paid With Nude Dances Gets Suspended
The Associated Press
September 22, 2008
A northern Illinois attorney has been suspended for accepting nude dances as partial payment for a client's legal fees.
The Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission on Thursday said Scott Robert Erwin will begin serving a 15-month suspension October 7th.
The commission's report says Erwin and the woman, who'd worked as an exotic dancer, mutually agreed that she'd perform nude dances for him in his office to reduce her legal fees. The report says the DeKalb, Ill., attorney credited her for $534.
The client, however, contends he touched her inappropriately during those dances, and she went to police with sexual assault allegations.
Erwin denied any inappropriate touching happened, and he was never charged criminally.
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