DePerno accuses GOP AG opponent Leonard of legal ethics violation

DePerno accuses GOP AG opponent Leonard of legal ethics violation

DePerno accuses GOP AG opponent Leonard of legal ethics violation

Republican legal professional general candidate Matthew DePerno wants GOP opponent and previous Home Speaker Tom Leonard fired from his personal regulation career, suggesting Leonard accessed privileged information DePerno supplied to the company as a customer and employed it for political ammunition. 

Leonard has denied the accusations, repeatedly calling them baseless and “a minor pathetic.” A spokesman said he has never legally represented DePerno and has no accessibility to details DePerno may perhaps have offered to other legal professionals at his company. A chief at the regulation firm echoed all those feedback in a assertion issued Monday afternoon. 

The No cost Push acquired a copy of a letter DePerno despatched April 7 to a lover at Plunkett Cooney, the legislation business wherever Leonard operates. In the letter, DePerno states he retained the firm in element to help him battle back again towards an investigation by the Michigan Legal professional Grievance Commission in connection to the election conspiracy lawsuit he filed in Antrim County.