Lawyer Put Phony Lien on Friend’s Home, Oversight Panel Told

An Illinois attorney who attached a bogus lien to a friend’s home to later try to buy the foreclosed house at a discount should be indefinitely barred from practicing law, a state disciplinary commission lawyer said on Friday.

Peter George Limperis who has been disciplined by the Illinois Attorney Registration & Disciplinary Commission twice before, should have his license to practice law suspended for two years and only be reinstated by the state Supreme Court, commission attorney Steve Splitt said. Requiring the Supreme Court reinstate Limperis’ law license greatly reduces the likelihood he will ever practice in Illinois ...