He's gonna have a fun time in jail.....bend over....
I guess this means that about 7/8 of the attorneys out there are in deep doo-doo.
"stealing from his poor and sickly clients"
It ain't the thievery, but who it's from that counts. If he stole from the government, insurance companies and the middle class, he'd be Lawyer of the Year.
Suspicion fell on him when it was noticed that his letterhead included the word "Esq."
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Mr. Tehin operated a fraud similar to a Ponzi scheme in which Mr. Tehin used settlement funds received on behalf of one client to pay off other clients whose settlements he had already stolen. In one incident Mr. Tehin sent a fraudulent billing statement to a client, falsely charging her thousands of dollars for expert witnesses who never did any work on the client's case, along with travel expenses unrelated to her case.
snip
One case involved a $250,000 settlement obtained on behalf of a newborn who sustained severe neurological injuries during the delivery as the result of alleged negligence by physicians and hospital staff. A second case involved a $1 million settlement Mr. Tehin had secured on behalf of two infant children with cystic fibrosis. Mr. Tehin deposited and stole the entire $1 million without even telling the parents of his clients that he had received settlement funds in their case.
Can a homestead purchased with stolen money be seized by the court to reimburse the victims?
My bet is that before the middle of June, some mysterious malady will strike this guy and he'll request to have his sentence changed for health reasons.