The Virginia State Bar has revoked the license of former Lynchburg-area attorney Peter Campbell Sackett after a series of disciplinary actions beginning in 2007.
Many of the matters stem from Sackett’s inability to account for money he received from clients for real estate transactions, according to the bar.
In the most recent matter, the bar found a Wyoming man paid Sackett more than $2,400 to oversee a Campbell County land sale that Sackett never completed.
Though Sackett cashed the checks and a deed was prepared, he never filed the paperwork with the court to transfer the land, a disciplinary committee found.
Bar records show Sackett didn’t communicate with the client for a year about the deed’s status between June 2007 and June 2008.
Findings of the disciplinary committee also detail how Sackett repeatedly dodged an attorney investigating the matter on be-half of the state bar.
Sackett never presented files or trust account records requested by the investigator. Bar records state officials are unsure what happened to the client’s money.
He was reprimanded in 2007 and September 2008 when he was unable to account for thousands of dollars that should have been deposited in his real estate trust account, then suspended for a month in October 2008 for failing to meet a bar mandate to show he had fixed those accounting problems.
The bar suspended him for 18 months beginning in October last year for failing to show he adequately notified clients of his 2008 suspension.
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