Sunday, June 30, 1996
By Eric Freedman
Detroit Journal Staff Writer
LANSING -- A convicted no-work consultant for the House Fiscal Agency has been slammed again for cheating the state.
Malik Hodari, a disbarred lawyer from the Lansing suburb of Okemos, recently pleaded no contest to attorney ethics charges stemming from work he was paid for -- but failed to do -- for the Michigan Law Revision Commission.
The Attorney Discipline Board suspended Hodari's law license for 30 days for cheating the commission. That penalty has no practical impact, however; his law license already had been revoked because of his felony conviction in the 1993 fiscal agency scandal.
The latest charges, which did not involve a criminal prosecution, stem from a $5,000 legal study Hodari was hired to conduct in 1987. He failed to provide the preliminary and final reports on time, failed to repay $2,500 and refused to return documents belonging to the commission.
Hodari served a one-year federal prison term for his role in the fiscal agency corruption scandal.
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