This case involves the Mississippi Bar's formal complaint seeking disbarment of attorney Robert C. Arledge after his federal convictions for conspiracy, mail fraud, and wire fraud related to submitting false Fen-Phen settlement claims through his law firm. Arledge was sentenced to seventy-eight months imprisonment in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi, with his convictions affirmed by the Fifth Circuit and the U.S. Supreme Court denying certiorari. The court applied Rule 6 of the Mississippi Rules of Discipline, which requires immediate suspension and eventual disbarment upon conviction of a qualifying felony once all appeals are exhausted without reversal, resulting in an order permanently disbarring Arledge and striking his name from the bar rolls.

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