If you've ever watched daytime — or really late night — TV, you're probably quite familiar with Roni "Tax Lady" Deutch, the tax attorney being sued for $34 million by the California attorney general over allegations she defrauded thousands of customers. Well, our TV speakers have gotten a brief reprieve as Deutch announced last week that she has closed her firm and surrendered her law license to the California State Bar.
"It's a sad, miserable day at my law firm," boo-hooed Deutch, who says her firm has $10 million in debt, at a press conference. "I've represented 20,000 taxpayers; 4,000 existing clients will soon be without legal representation.... I am totally, completely broke."
She added, "I am not the monster the attorney general has made me out to be."
The State Bar's Chief Trial Counsel got in a dig at Deutch with this statement to the press: "If, in fact, [Deutch] stops being a licensed lawyer in California, we believe this will help protect the public."
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