Helms' protege has license suspended

Claude Allen will have his law license suspended for 90 days.

The former White House adviser and Sen. Jesse Helms protege will have his license suspended over a series of thefts from Target stores, the Legal Times reports.

Allen pleaded guilty in 2006 to stealing from a Target store in Montgomery County, Md. Store video showed that Allen would buy items from Target or Hecht's, take the purchases to his car, then use the receipt to return a similar item off the store shelf.

A committee of the D.C. Board on Professional Responsibility said that Allen should receive a "modest sanction" because he internalized suffering of victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Allen has been a member of the D.C. bar since 1992. He has already had his license suspended for similar amounts of time in Pennsylvania and Virginia.

Hat Tip: David Ingram

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