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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA NO. 97-B-2457 IN RE: ANNE W. SCHNEIDER DISCIPLINARY PROCEEDINGS PER CURIAM* This formal ("ODC") charges against disciplinary filed by matter arises of from one count of

the

Office W.

Disciplinary The

Counsel charges

respondent,

Anne

Schneider.

alleged that respondent violated Rule 8.4(a), (b) and (c) of the Rules of Professional Conduct. A review of the underlying facts indicates that on September 26, 1996, respondent was charged in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana with one count of mail fraud, conspiracy material to false commit mail fraud, to a

intentionally

submitting

statements

federally insured banking institution, and submitting or causing to be submitted financial statements to banking institutions

which were materially false, and one count of willfully making and subscribing an Internal Revenue Service Form 1040 under

penalty of perjury which materially understated her income. These federal charges arose from respondent's

activities as a shareholder and officer of Charter Title Co. ("Charter"), a company involved in commercial and residential real estate transactions.1 According to the bill of information,

Charter would transfer its clients' money from an escrow account to an operating account and use the money to pay Charter's

*

Marcus, J. not on panel.

Rule IV, Part 2,

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