In Re Pleshaw

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• “[Respondent] thus demonstrated that he was aware of and understood the conservatorship rules, but he nonetheless disregarded them for his own convenience. This alone constitutes ‘conscious indifference.’ ” (citation omitted)
• to prove reckless misappropriation of entrusted funds the facts must establish either an intent to use entrusted funds for one's own use or a conscious indifference to protecting entrusted funds
• the fact that attorney properly withdrew his initial fee as a conservator only after requesting and receiving court permission was evidence of his conscious indifference to the rules when he later paid himself commissions from estate funds without court permission

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