MIAMI — A Tampa attorney who was sentenced to eight years of sex offender probation and no prison time after pleading guilty to 34 counts of child pornography charges still will not “acknowledge the wrongful nature of his conduct,” a Florida judge said.
That’s not from the judge who sentenced 52-year-old Chris Ragano in his criminal case, but the judge who was the referee in his Florida Bar discipline case.
In recommending Ragano’s disbarment — an action the state Supreme Court took on Dec. 8 — Pinellas County Circuit Court Judge George Mark Jirotka quoted the concerns of licensed mental health counselor Dr. Wendy Coughlin and Ragano’s own testimony in explaining why he felt Ragano showed a “refusal to acknowledge the wrongful nature of the conduct.”
