CANADA
Winnipeg Free Press
By: Alexandra Paul
Posted: 02/22/2012
His law career finished after being disbarred for overcharging residential school victims, Howard Tennenhouse was anything but contrite as he lashed out at the fate he had been dealt Tuesday.
In a call to the Free Press after the Law Society of Manitoba meted out his punishment, the former lawyer, who pleaded guilty to professional misconduct, argued he was the real victim of the case, not his clients.
He criticized the law society, the federal residential school compensation agency and the media — and even suggested his clients were somehow responsible for his troubles.
“What I’m upset about is I had to (be) disbarred and slammed in the media as someone who was stealing from the Indians, when that’s not what I did,” Tennenhouse said in a telephone interview.
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