Bereano’s back
July 17, 2008
It’s been five years, but Bruce Bereano is once again the highest-paid lobbyist in the state.
According to this report in the Gazette, Bereano earned $806,000 between Nov. 1 and April 30, inching out Joel D. Rozner by a relative nose — $5,000 – for the top spot among 61 lobbyists who disclosed earning more than $100,000 for those key six months.
Bereano, the state’s first lobbyist to crack the million-dollar mark, was convicted of federal mail fraud in 1994 but still managed to work while appealing the conviction and ultimately serving his 10 month term of confinement — five months in a halfway house, the other five on home detention — in 1999.
He made it back to the top of the lobbying list in 2003, the Gazette says. That was the same year the State Ethics Commission ordered a 10-month suspension of his license. (His lobbying license, that is; he was disbarred in 2000 due to the mail fraud conviction.) The ethics commission said he had agreed to represent a client on an illegal contingency-fee basis.
Once again, Bereano bit back: the suspension was put on hold while he appealed it all the way to the state’s highest court. And earlier this year, his persistence paid off when the Court of Appeals sent the matter back to the commission.
All in all, not a bad year for Bruce. Think this is the year he’ll try to get his law license reinstated, too?
BARBARA GRZINCIC, Managing Editor/Law
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