For good or ill, I’ve decided that the subject of this story is a cross-media blend of Paul Giamatti’s character from Sideways and Paul Giamatti’s character from Billions. This makes the story far more entertaining and imagining Giamatti acting out each of these episodes is providing me no end of entertainment. If Above the Law had the resources, we’d hire Giamatti to play this guy Drunk History-style and put it up.
Regrettably, we’re just going to have to use our imaginations, folks.
The Ohio Supreme Court has just unanimously disbarred an attorney after discovering a decades-spanning predilection for stealing wine.
Rodger W. Moore was suspended in 2015 after the Cincinnati Bar Association learned he had stolen three of bottles wine and olive oil in 2012 by replacing the bar codes before checking out.
Moore was also convicted in 2001 of stealing 12 bottles of wine from a store in Georgia, officials said.
Technically the lawyer was also found to have pulled a bait and switch on a divorce client, offering to do the case for free and then jacking up the price once she was dependent on his continued representation, but this wine thing… weird.
Is he aware of Charles Shaw? Or Bud Light? There are so many avenues to an unhealthy lifestyle that don’t require larceny, my man.
‘Predatory,’ wine-stealing Northern Kentucky lawyer disbarred [Cincinnati Enquirer]
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