Ohio Supreme Court suspends Frank Rozanc's law license

Ohio Supreme Court suspends Frank Rozanc's law license


Published: Tuesday, June 05, 2012

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The Ohio Supreme Court suspended the law license of Eastlake attorney Frank Rozanc indefinitely on Tuesday.

The Lake County Bar Association filed a complaint against Rozanc on Feb. 14, 2011, claiming the lawyer concealed assets of an estate.

Rozanc falsely stated he had distributed $19,228 to the guardian of an estate beneficiary in Lake County Probate Court. He also attached a receipt to that report with a forged signature of the guardian.

After the forgery was discovered, Rozanc wrote a check to the guardian. However, it was returned unpaid with a notation that the bank was unable to locate the account on which it was drawn, according to the complaint.

Although the complaint was served at the business address Rozanc has registered with the Supreme Court, he failed to file an answer.

A master commissioner appointed by the Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline found the Bar Association had proven its allegations.

In a 7-0 opinion, Supreme Court justices voted to suspend Rozanc from practicing law in Ohio.

“As aggravating factors, the board found that Rozanc acted with a dishonest and selfish motive, engaged in a pattern of misconduct, failed to acknowledge the wrongful nature of his conduct, and caused harm to the vulnerable beneficiary of the decedent’s estate,” Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor wrote in her opinion. “… We also find that Rozanc has a prior disciplinary record and has failed to cooperate in the disciplinary process.”

In August 2009, Rozanc’s law license was suspended for one year for failing to diligently represent and properly communicate with a client serving as the executor of a decedent’s estate. Six months of that suspension was stayed if he stayed out of trouble.

But in November 2009, the Supreme Court imposed an attorney-registration suspension for Rozanc’s failure to register for the 2009 to 2011 biennium. Continued...




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Editor's note: The Estate of Alice R. Gore also had assets concealed...by the court officers.



Alice R. Gore Estate value about 1 million dollars: Alice R. Gore, deceased, a disabled 99 year old ward of the Probate Court of Cook County, Judge Kawamoto’s courtroom was hours away from ending up in the Cook County Morgue. Alice's estate was depleted by probate court parasites and there were reportedly no funds to bury her. Her loving family paid for the burial expenses so that Alice would not have to suffer the indignity of being stacked like an Auschwitz inmate in the Cook County morgue. The judge allowed an easily manipulated, court documented, mentally disabled granddaughter to be appointed as Alice’s guardian and yet no sanctions were instituted against the judge or court officers for this blatant infraction of the law.


Strangely, 16 of Alice’s annuity checks, two of which show forged endorsements, disappeared. Alice’s daughter has a copy of a check with her signature possibly forged. The daughter’s attorney has been trying to obtain copies of the 16 other annuity checks for two years without success. Even more puzzling is a $150,000 life insurance policy owned by Alice and not inventoried into the estate by the court. The Probate Court of Cook of Cook County refuses to investigate these blatant infractions of the law. Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

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