Stiff discipline is being recommended for a New Jersey municipal public defender who talked some of his indigent clients into paying for his services as private counsel.
Douglas Del Tufo "converted the assigned representation to one of a private attorney — and not because the clients had so requested, but because he, dishonestly, had either suggested or persuaded the clients to do so," the state Supreme Court's Disciplinary Review Board said in an opinion on Monday.
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