The Iowa Supreme Court has reinstated the law license of a lawyer who was convicted of dealing marijuana while serving as an attorney for the City of Council Bluffs.
Court records show that in 2017, Don Richard John Bauermeister was working as a full-time assistant city attorney for the City of Council Bluffs while also maintaining a small, part-time criminal defense practice in Council Bluffs.
Prosecutors later alleged that in late 2016 and early 2017, while still working as a city attorney, Bauermeister engaged in drug trafficking. Prosecutors said he paid a co-conspirator to travel from Omaha, Nebraska, to Medford, Oregon, to pick up marijuana and bring it to Omaha, where Bauermeister sold the drugs for profit…