Kegley

Carl S. Kegley is charged with misconduct involving moral turpitude and having committed acts tending to impair public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of public justice, and ordered to show cause why he should not be disbarred from practice before the United States District Court.

At the hearing it was shown that Mr. Kegley joined with others in a private investigation of the use of stolen Liberty bonds in the Los Angeles community, the purpose being to bring the facts to the attention of the proper public officials. The Los Angeles chief of *328 police and chief of the detective bureau had been consulted and all information obtained by his associates was imparted to Mr. Kegley from this source as well as other sources. Mr. Kegley was asked to take over the investigation.

As a result of information thus developed, suspicion was directed to one E. E. Wiley. Mr. Kegley, together with one of his associates, interviewed Mr. Wiley, charged him with complicity in the unlawful affair, and warned him that his true interest lay in a confession. Wiley expressed the opinion that he was in a dangerous situation and thereupon expressed a desire to employ Mr. Kegley as his…