To put this into perspective, if you were a black Ivy League educated.lawyer in the 1990s you were solid gold rare commodity with the world at your feet.
You had the whole Ivy League and Harvard Lawyer protection squad to run interference for you to help dig you out of trouble.
Despite this, both of the two had to give up their law license's. This in Chicago, ground zero for institutionalized incompetence and corruption.
Walking away from a Harvard Law education is big, big deal so they must have committed something pretty egregious to forgo formal disciplinary action and the case against them must have been so airtight they had no hope of winning if they tried to fight their case..
I seriously doubt that there is another Harvard/Ivy League educated husband and wife team in the country who have both surrendered their law practice.
http://www.talk-polywell.org/bb/viewtopic.php?t=1963&start=0
Most likely the fact that they falsified data on their bar applications, like aliases and citizenship caused them to remove themselves before it became public, to their political detriment.