On 23 July 2008, the American Polygraph Association (APA) posted -- without shame or embarrassment -- the following announcement:

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What the APA fails to mention is that "(o)n November 21, 2001, the Supreme Court of Florida disbarred attorney F. Lee Bailey for 'multiple counts of egregious misconduct, including offering false testimony, engaging in ex parte communications, violating a client's confidences, violating two federal court orders, and trust account violations, including commingling and misappropriation.' Florida Bar v. Bailey, 803 So. 2d 683, 694 (Fla. 2001), cert. denied, 535 U.S. 1056 (2002) (Bailey)" (emphasis added). In 2002, Bailey was reciprocally disbarred in the state of Massachusetts.

In 1996, Bailey spent six weeks in federal prison for contempt of court. He was found guilty of contempt a second time in 2000 but spared a prison sentence.

Bailey, a long-time advocate of polygraphy, in the 1980s co-hosted with polygrapher Edward I. Gelb of Los Angeles a television show called Lie Detector. Gelb, a past president of the APA, is cut from the same ethical cloth as Bailey: he has for years falsely passed himself off as a Ph.D. in marketing his polygraph services (and the APA doesn't consider his fakery to be a violation of its ethical standards).

F. Lee Bailey was a pioneer in the use of polygraphs for legal defense, and was an avid supporter of their use, a stong believer in the science of polygraphs. and would make an excellent choice for keynote speaker for such an event. There is a much larger story regarding his disbarment, simplified, he was paid in stocks to defend someone, and then much later the court ordered him to surrender his stocks (payment), which he refused. (Would you give back your last several paychecks if your employer was found guilty of something?) Think about it.
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