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Supreme Court disbars Terri Ann Hauge
Jun 26th, 2013 by Patrick Thornton
The Supreme Court disbarred attorney Terri Ann Hauge today.
Hauge’s law license was suspended in 1995 after clients complained to the attorney discipline board that she mishandled their cases and lied about it.
She could have reapplied for her license but never did. Instead, she went into business overseeing the finances of vulnerable adults. In fact, at 200 clients, her firm had the fourth largest portfolio as guardians and conservators in the state.
You can probably guess what happened next. In 2010, she was charged with theft by swindle and ignoring the needs of the people she was supposed to be taking care of. She stole $53,000 from an Edina man who died in 2003, and there were several other charges of theft and perjury.
Investigators said one mentally ill man was living in squalor when he was rescued.
In total, she was convicted of six counts.
Her arrest prompted questions of how a woman who lost her law license could become a guardian for at-risk adults.
The Star Tribune filed this story in 2011.
Hauge’s law license was suspended in 1995 after clients complained to the attorney discipline board that she mishandled their cases and lied about it.
She could have reapplied for her license but never did. Instead, she went into business overseeing the finances of vulnerable adults. In fact, at 200 clients, her firm had the fourth largest portfolio as guardians and conservators in the state.
You can probably guess what happened next. In 2010, she was charged with theft by swindle and ignoring the needs of the people she was supposed to be taking care of. She stole $53,000 from an Edina man who died in 2003, and there were several other charges of theft and perjury.
Investigators said one mentally ill man was living in squalor when he was rescued.
In total, she was convicted of six counts.
Her arrest prompted questions of how a woman who lost her law license could become a guardian for at-risk adults.
The Star Tribune filed this story in 2011.
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