NOTICE OF REPRIMAND (By Consent)
Case No. 98-87-GA Eugene J. Stroia, P-21099, Southgate, Michigan, by Attorney Discipline Board Tri-County Hearing Panel #5.
1) Reprimand; 2) Effective January 12, 1999. Respondent was appointed personal representative for a decedent's estate in Macomb County Probate Court. Respondent was called to testify, under oath, before the presiding judge. Respondent pled no contest to allegations that he testified falsely, under oath, that he was paid $11,000 in legal fees in by the decedent, when respondent know or should have known that the $11,000 given to him by the decedent was a gift, in violation of MCR 9.104(1) and (4); and Michigan Rules of Professional Conduct 3.3(a) and 8.4(a) and (c).
The parties stipulated that respondent be reprimanded. Costs were assessed in the amount of $60.47.