About 7 years ago....we had a lawyer many of us in practice did business with.
Long story short...he absconded with over 2 million dollars of personal injury settlement money.
I lost only about 20 thousand...one friend got hosed on 250K of patient settlement money.
He was forging patient sigs on settlement checks.
I confronted him...he said he "Didn't know what I was talking about..."
He signed his parent's house over to him...cashed in, blew the m,oney.
His own mother
He triend to do the same with his law firm's building...that is when he got nabbed.
Still, it was incredibly hard to disbar him. This is hard to do with attys...at least in CT.
He went to jail for a year or two.....now works as a PARALEGAL!
I had pateints literally comin g to me, crying...'where's my money'...etc.
Disgraceful