A Minnesota attorney who faces five years in prison for fleecing a California Indian tribe of thousands of dollars in federal money has become ineligible to practice law in the Golden State.
On Wednesday, the State Bar of California decided that Gary Kovall, a graduate of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, was ineligible given his Feb. 21 guilty plea to conspiracy to commit bribery. Kovall, a solo practitioner in Ely, Minn., who served as general counsel to the Twenty-Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians, was scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 29.
