*Embezzlement issues at the State Bar of Texas...
This page focuses primarily upon what appears to be the most noteworthy embezzlements to have actually been discovered at the Texas Bar thus far. Kathy Holder served as the Bar's membership director. She gradually embezzled well over half a million dollars of dues money (etc.) over the course of nearly a decade before someone turned her in by around May of 2013. How the Texas Bar handled this ongoing theft afterwards is noteworthy and analyzed below. Incidentally the dollar figures on this page are not adjusted for inflation.
| Concise media report regarding Kathy Holder's embezzling while at the Texas Bar |
| Elaborate analysis of how the Texas Bar handled Kathy Holder's embezzling |
Why did the State Bar of Texas forget to include any information about that in its Sunset Review presentation to the state legislature which it submitted less than 3 years later? The Bar sought a renewal of its 12 year charter and (among other privileges) the right to increase annual attorney membership dues whenever and as often as it likes as well as by however much it likes... |
| Do you agree with how the Texas Bar subsequently did not disclose Ms. Holder's embezzlements to the state legislature's Sunset Commission when trying to secure its permission to impose dues increases on the compulsory membership? The Texas Bar acted this way even after claiming to its attorney members (in writing) that attorney referendum rights (presumably including those against such dues increases) had already been preserved during the Sunset Review. For more on the Sunset secrecy and other Bar irregularities, please read (now former) President Joe Longley's report. |
Incidentally, some people suspect that other embezzlements continue to be underway |
| Meanwhile, isn't it noteworthy how California's bar's prominent embezzler of a decade ago had to repay what she stole, but Kathy Holder of the Texas Bar essentially did not? Texas bar members ultimately had to absorb the bulk of the losses because the Texas Bar made its insuror do so. Might the decisionmakers involved with that have feared that Kathy Holder could become a snitch against them if they didn't appease her with massive debt forgiveness? |
Why doesn't the Texas Bar finally launch an externally operated whistleblower program How about money allocated to those entities that are accepting funds from the new Access Anyhow, please feel free to enjoy this fairly recent report about the SEC's whistleblower program: |
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