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2014-09-23 |
PER CURIAM |
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| Dishonesty is a "disposition to lie, cheat, deceive, or defraud; untrustworthiness; lack of integrity; lack of honesty, probity or integrity in principle; lack of fairness and straightforwardness; disposition to defraud, deceive or betray." [28] Dishonesty, being a grave offense, carries the extreme penalty of dismissal from the service with forfeiture of retirement benefits except accrued leave credits, and with perpetual disqualification from re-employment in government service. Indeed, dishonesty is a malevolent act that has no place in the Judiciary.[29] | |||||
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2014-09-23 |
PER CURIAM |
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| This court must be wary of non-traditional concealments of truth. It shows that a person not only made a dishonest act but that the person has a propensity to conceal the truth. This runs against the very principles of truth and justice that the judiciary tries to uphold. It is reprehensible if it is a judge or justice expected by the public trust to be honest who perpetrates this act. As we have time and again declared: "[D]ishonesty is a malevolent act that has no place in the Judiciary."[89] | |||||