O.J. Simpson defender, F. Lee Bailey, is broke and disbarred

Apart from a single mention of O.J. being frightened not to talk to him in prison there is no mention of what kind of retaliation he received. There is no attempt to get remarks or opinions from those who apparently retaliated.

It makes no mentions of the reasons why he was disbarred, or why, since he was 60 years old during the O.J. trial and implied to have had a lot of money did he not have enough money left to retire.

The American compact is that people are innocent until proven guilty, and that all criminals get defence lawyers. It is because you cannot trust the justice system to accuse only innocent men; the state cannot be allowed the power to point at a person and send him to jail for life. It would be one thing to use your right of free association to avoid this man in one's day to day life, and eminently defensible, but for him to be subject to systematic retaliation that destroys his career for doing a good job defending someone controversial and unpopular?

That's not really something I want the state bar association to do. The justice system is already over-incentivized to over-prosecute, over-convict and run roughshod over defendant's rights whenever it can. If they can find an excuse to deprive you of a job for defending OJ, they can find a similar one for (say) defending someone from Black Lives Matter in a court in Alabama.

Even acknowledging the fairly obvious error (if one accepts his account of events) of not having a substantial revision to the documented, signed fee arrangement itself documented and signed would probably go a long way.

If you can't acknowledge that you did the wrong thing (only that you were found the have done so), at least acknowledge the giant slip-up as a lawyer that resulted in you being judged to have done the wrong thing and show you've learned from it, since it's the kind of slip-up that could get your client nailed for wrongdoing that they are innocent of, were you readmitted to practice.