Back in June prominent Los Angeles attorney Stephen Yagman was found guilty of 19 counts of tax fraud, money laundering, and bankruptcy fraud. Yesterday at the sentencing hearing, Yagman’s attorney, Barry Tarlow, asked that Yagman be sentenced to teaching morality to undergraduates at UCLA.
I’m not making this up.
UCLA professor Frances Olsen asked Yagman to teach the course. Ms. Olsen, according to her biography, specializes in “legal theory, social change, and feminism.” The Wikipedia page on Ms. Olsen states that she is “…a noted member of the school of Feminist Legal Theory.” Apparently ethics aren’t part of that theory.
For the record, I’ll note that Mr. Tarlow believes that the prosecution of Mr. Yagman was a “vindictive prosecution.” And that Mr. Tarlow believes prison would be a bad choice for some other reasons: bad health and possibility of being attacked. Vindictive or not, when a person is convicted of 19 felonies he should expect to visit ClubFed rather than teach at UCLA.
Judge Stephen Wilson will likely sentence Mr. Yagman on Monday.
Hat Tip: Patterico’s Pontifications
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