GOP Chairman Steve Shine Should Have The Moral And Ethics Dogs Bite His Butt

From The News-Sentinel

Steve Shine, a local attorney and chairman for the Allen County Republican Party, was issued a private reprimand by the Indiana Supreme Court on Tuesday for misconduct because he “exercised no active supervision” over his wife, who wrote $22,257 worth of unauthorized checks while she had control over his firm's trust account.

*No active supervision? - kind of sounds like his sloppy leadership he performs with the Allen County Republican party has spilled over to his own agency.

The complaint posted on the court's Web site lists Shine as anonymous, but his entry on the state's Roll of Attorneys indicates disciplinary action against him has concluded. The Roll of Attorneys Administrator's Office confirmed Shine had disciplinary action taken against him Tuesday after a complaint had been filed.

*Good, its' about time this slippery snake has some misery tossed his way. Maybe, conservative party insiders will take this as an indication the little troll needs to get his ass booted out as chairman.

According to the court's decision, Beth Shine served as the accountant and bookkeeper for Shine and Hardin, LLP, beginning no later than 1980. As soon as Shine and his partner became aware of the misappropriated money, she admitted to what she had done and repaid the funds in full by November 2005.

Shine was disciplined because he was in a managerial role at the firm and violated the Indiana Professional Conduct Rules because he failed to make “reasonable efforts” to ensure that the conduct of a nonlawyer employee is compatible with the professional obligations of the lawyer and also failed to “ensure the firm has in effect measures to assure all lawyers in the firm conform to the Rules of Professional Conduct.”

Shine has no previous disciplinary history, according to the decision, fully cooperated with the court's Disciplinary Commission and took immediate steps to ensure the complete repayment of funds.

*Don't take this as the troll is some saint, he isn't. He messed up, screwed up, fouled up and now he needs to shut up and remove himself from his political power house self-serving chairmanship.

This little political dictator talked about morals and ethics during this last campaign - now he himself steps outside the regulations set by the state governing lawyers and none of those critics of Matt Kelty can be found.

Shine's actions should be considered a serious violation of public trust and his political participation in sending the dogs after Kelty should now come under more scrutiny.

If Shine wants to send the morals and value dogs after Kelty for his errors, I sure the hell want to see those same dogs bite the chairman in his own ass.