[jldugger]

Is that the best you can do? One can almost argue if you have been disbarred, you are no longer a lawyer. Though I guess that didn't stop the Air Force from hiring the guy to be a lawyer, then praising and promoting him multiple times.

Here's a more recent and IMO better one: https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/04/28/former-apple-lawy...

> Former Apple lawyer Gene Levoff, who oversaw the company's Insider Trading Policy as corporate secretary and senior director of corporate law, was on Thursday indicted for insider trading and faces a maximum penalty of 120 years in prison. > Ironically, Levoff was in charge of enforcing the blackout period as part of Apple's wider trading policy and would sometimes conduct illicit trades after notifying others of the restrictions.

[ctheb]

> According to prosecutors, he used that information to seek unjust enrichment through a series of beneficial stock trades that generated $227,000 in profits and avoided $377,000 in potential losses.

This seems like a trivial amount of money for someone that high up to jeopardize their career or spend years of their life in prison for. I would maybe even understand the risk/reward if it was in the tens of millions but this sounds nowhere close.

I am genuinely curious to know if this happens regularly - what is the real motivation for committing a crime that barely pays relative to the penalties?