Lawyer is suspended for 2 years over wine-shoplifting incident and the way he handled it
An attorney was admitted to a diversion program after being criminally charged in a supermarket wine-shoplifting incident in 2012.
However, Rodger Moore was suspended from practice for two years by the Ohio Supreme Court over the incident, in part because he was determined to be untruthful and uncooperative with disciplinary authorities, the Cincinnati Enquirer reports. The court stayed one year of the suspension in its Thursday ruling.
Moore used UPC codes he brought into a Kroger store in Cincinnati to reduce by $359.10 the price of three bottles of wine he purchased there at a self-scan checkout, attorney disciplinary authorities found. They also criticized Moore for failing to acknowledge the full scope of his activities—which included an earlier wine-shoplifting case in 2001—both to those overseeing the legal ethics case and to friends acting as character witnesses.
WXIX also has a story. The articles don’t include any comment from Moore.
