On September 15, 1998, the Board of Disciplinary Appeals disbarred Odessa, TX attorney William-Michael Furman, State Bar of Texas Card no. 07557000. On January 6, 1993,, pled guilty to two (2 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud in violation of 18 U.S.C. §2, 18 U.S.C. §371 and 18 U.S.C. §1344 in Cause Number 90-427-L(l), styled The United States of America v. William Michael Furman, In the United States District Court for  the Eastern District of Louisiana. BODA case no. 02528.