Disbarred attorney F. Lee Bailey
On 23 July 2008, the American Polygraph Association (APA)
posted -- without shame or embarrassment -- the following announcement:
Quote:Famed Attorney, F. Lee Bailey to speak at APA seminar
Famed attorney, F. LEE Bailey is schedule [sic] to be the featured banquet speaker at the upcoming APA seminar to be held in Indianapolis, IN. Attorney Bailey will also lecture with APA General Counsel, Gordon Vaughan, during a session on Thursday, "Confessions to a Polygraph Examiner: How to make sure it is Amissible in Court. "
You can find out more about the topics and speakers when you check out the updated schedule which has now been posted.
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).