Seth Carey, attorney by day/casino mogul-wannabe by night, may already be on course for the downward spiral that a vice-based career often leads to, and his ballot question hasn’t even gone before voters yet.

The brains behind the Oxford County citizen initiative has allegedly engaged in improper lawyering (redundant, I know), and is now the subject of a disciplinary hearing by a commission appointed by the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar.

According to the AP, Carey approached clients of other attorneys and attempted to discuss their cases with them—an act frowned upon by the esquire class.  Fortunately for Carey, his group, Evergreen Mountain Enterprises, just closed the deal with Pat LaMarche to make her the spokesperson for the casino initiative, leaving him with plenty of time to prepare his defense.

Carey’s initiative, which Mainers will vote on this November, would authorize a casino in Oxford County.  Provisions of the initiative also include lowering the State’s gambling age from 21 to 19, placing a 10-year moratorium on building other casinos in Maine and automatically giving the casino’s president a seat on every state agency board and program that financially benefits from the casino.

Memo to Seth: when you’re playing with casino fires, don’t role around in legal lighter fluid.