Our Twelve Traditions are Spiritual Principals. When I think I'm above, or justifying breaking those spiritually based principals, it shows exactly where I am spiritually. It shows with even decades not drinking, the alcoholic self will can still run riot.
The fact that he uses his name with AA seems to me a violation of the 11th and 12th Step Traditions of AA. For further understanding and research please go to http://www.barefootsworld.net/aaanonymity.html