Have you ever heard of someone being sentenced to prison for wrongly checking a box on a form that made zero difference? If you’re a conservative lawyer who was wrongly disbarred, and you accidentally checked a box on a form for your Social Security job indicating that you were a licensed attorney, you can now expect to go to prison for a year. 

Retired California federal attorney Jeffrey Moffatt, who previously ran for Congress as a Republican, was targeted by the State Bar of Arizona (SBA) after he exchanged flirtatious messages with a woman on Facebook. He joked about representing her in exchange for a picture. Nothing ever happened; she never sent him any inappropriate photos nor retained him as an attorney. 

But because he was a fairly well-known conservative attorney (his wife, Star, also ran for office as a Republican), the SBA disbarred him, citing screenshots of the messages, which he disputes were verified, making it appear that he was asking for a nude photo. In fact, the Moffatts said the woman tried to extort them for money, and they reported the incident to law enforcement.

For most of his career, Moffatt represented people with disabilities attempting to obtain disability benefits from the Social Security Administration. The job does not require a license to practice law. However, on one of the forms he is required to fill out annually for the position, he must check whether or not he is a licensed attorney. Since it’s a long form that he just rehashes every year, he did not catch the mistake after the SBA........

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