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Thomas A. Gish, Sr. of Mill Creek (WSBA No. 00318, admitted 1968) has been disbarred pursuant to a stipulation for discipline, approved by the Supreme Court effective May 14, 1998. In the stipulation, Gish admitted that he had filed a tax return for the 1994 tax year which under-reported his taxable income by approximately $134,450.
On April 23, 1997, the United States Attorney’s Office filed a one-count information in the Federal District Court for the Western District of Washington at Seattle charging Gish with the felony crime of tax evasion. He pled guilty and was sentenced to three years’ probation, including 60 days of electronic monitoring.
Gish stipulated that the Association had sufficient evidence to meet its burden of proving by a clear preponderance of the evidence that his conduct violated RPC 8.4(b), which prohibits a lawyer from engaging in a criminal act that reflects adversely on the lawyer’s honesty or trustworthiness; RPC 8.4(c), which prohibits a lawyer from engaging in acts involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation; RLD 1.1(a), which subjects a lawyer to discipline for committing acts which involve moral turpitude or which reflect disregard for the rule of law; and/or RLD 1.1(c), which subjects a lawyer for discipline for failing to abide by the laws of the United States as required by the lawyer’s oaths and duties as a lawyer. He also stipulated that the Association had sufficient evidence to meet its burden of proving that he violated RLD 1.1(p), which subjects a lawyer to discipline for engaging in conduct demonstrating unfitness to practice law.
Gish represented himself pro se. Disciplinary Counsel Leslie Ching Allen represented the Bar Association.
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