The Illinois attorney ethics board has recommended the disbarment of an attorney convicted of smuggling trunkloads of Cuban cigars into the country during the 1990s.

The hearing board of the Illinois Attorney Registration and Disciplinary Commission last week recommended stripping the law license from Richard Steven Connors, who was convicted in 2002 of violating the Trading with the Enemy Act, falsifying information on his passport and conspiracy.

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