$8.4M Sex, Lies & Texts Settlement Puts Detroit Lawyers on Hot Seat

The ABA Journal reports:

The first of a series of legal ethics hearings has begun concerning five attorneys involved in a controversial $8.4 million settlement by the city of Detroit over police whistle-blower litigation and steamy text messages sent by the former mayor to his then-top aide.

Because the text messages also showed that then-Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick lied under oath in the whistle-blower litigation, attorney Sam McCargo, who was hired by the city to represent Kilpatrick, should have told the court of his client's perjury, the prosecution contends in the Michigan Attorney Discipline Board case. In testimony at the hearing, a judge in the whistle-blower litigation said he would have ordered a new trial had he known about the text messages, reports the Detroit News.

Via Instapundit.