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According to the California State Auditor, “To explain two overdrafts of a client trust account that occurred in a particular month, an attorney submitted a copy of the account’s bank statement for the prior month, but not for the month when the client trust account was actually overdrawn. Instead, the attorney submitted a narrative providing details of certain transactions for the month in question and then asserted that the overdraft was caused by charges the attorney expected would be paid from a different  account. Instead of requesting the bank statement for the month in question, the State Bar accepted the attorney’s explanation and closed the case.”