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She should have declared the stolen money as income.
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My name is Elmer J. Fudd…I own a mansion and a yacht.
My son stole a computer and got three years
Only worth getting disbarred and jail time if you're stealing retirement-level money!
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Just curious Steve, does the Journal's BAD lawyer list outnumber the DECEASED lawyer list?
We all hope that you never make it onto either list!
I just thought of an amazing new tactic. If feds don't care about HOW you get illegal money, as long as you pay taxes… then is it okay for me to hold up a bank, as long as I head right down to H&R block afterwards?
So what 👍🙂
Bummer… still not about Richard Leibowitz.
I have hired attorney's that do nothing and one that no show up to court. I get into trouble with judge for that. I report to State BAR and the BAR send me letter saying its wrong for your attorney but they no enforce law on attorneys. I kid you not!!!!!
Steve, you bust me up! I'm a Texas lawyer and the only thing I read in the Texas Bar Journal are the obituaries and the disbarments. Glad I'm not the only one.
Thought we did away with debtors prisons?
It'll be hard to self-surrender from Tijuana
How can someone go to prison? Who is the lawyer when there isn’t a law against not paying your taxes there is no law. I’m just saying.
15 months for 3.5Mil? Sign me up! /s i’ll do that all day! /s
Her mistake was being a crook in private practice. If she would have have gone into government, she wouldn’t be going to jail, she would be getting promoted.
I once paid an attorney up front to create an irrevocable trust, but after four months of trying to get them to do it I finally hired another attorney who got it done in a few days at half the price. Never got that money back.
is she related to Michael Avenatti ? … just askin…
Steve because the theft took place wholly within the state and did not involve postal mail maybe the Feds had no jurisdiction. California DAs have very little interest in prosecuting property crime unless you contribute to their campaign. Write a bad check to a car dealer and you will go to jail. About 15 years ago i had a client whose aunt, with the help of a confederate at Wells Fargo, stole 6 figures from a college student. The aunt did not dispute that she took the money. Riverside County DA had no interest in prosecuting. I won a decent settlement from Wells Fargo, who promptly closed all my accounts and barred me for life.
Remember.. Scarface was convicted for tax evasion/fraud not murder/kidnapping, burglary or booze running….and i made my comment at about 2 min in.. LOL
lol are they gonna start charging bank robbers for tax evasion too? They are just piling on charges.
Hiring an attorney is like grabbing a tiger by the tail. EVERY attorney (4) I have hired has not handled my case thoroughly or like one actually put me in a worse situation then when I hired him. All have spent more money than they said, not accounting for their time then turned on me when I held them to account. In contrast I have won 4 cases without a lawyer, one against a DA (not ADA). When I did time billing (billing per hour) I accounted for every 15 minutes on my invoice explaining exactly what I did during that time. I NEVER sent an invoice that read "For Services Rendered 8,000". I too have sued an attorney for lack of performance after hiring him. I won.
Ben Hundo's riding on the Batmobile (3rd shelf, left)
Steal from the people, no problem, BUT, you steal from the government taxes, they gets pissed real quick.
Why isn't she in jail TODAY? Isn't jail supposed to be a punishment?
The IRS was mad they didn’t get their cut of the stolen money. Amazing.
does she have to sell all her stuff and pay back the clients that would only be fair
If they take a settlement, put it in their account, and spend all of it, isn't that theft by conversion?
The moral of the story is that if you're going to embezzle other people's money is to dot your "i"s and cross your "t"s in your taxation obligations.
Steal with a gun, give all we can get back and go to prison for a long time. Steal with a ball point pen , get probation or a very light sentence
You don't know about the twilight zone of the law, court, attorneys & the justice system aka Ashland, Ohio. These attorneys do absolutely nothing, i mean nothing for you, while they litteraly do exactly tly what they have decided behind the scene. They have a script, thry follow to the letter, with a straight face. Out of town attorneys won't even come to Ashland regardless of being paid up front.
You gotta be crazy in the era of AI , to fudge on your taxes. Hell, we pay approx 10% OVER just in case of clerical error or maybe rate goes up, etc. You get it back if you don't need.
People are real tards.
The rollover of money from one case to pay the next reminds me of old family stories of my grandfather and his time in real estate. My grandfather was brilliant at doing subdivisions but was terrible at managing money. The man would use the profits from one set of deals to get the next one rolling. This apparently worked well for a while and the man built up quite a lot of money in his ongoing projects, until a major market crash occurred (back in the 70s) and all of his money evaporated. He almost always ended up owing the IRS money, as well, though at least in his case he had the sense to at least file, even if he never had the money to pay, so while he never had to worry about being hauled off to jail his bank accounts were always in jeopardy of being seized. I can recall even towards the end of his life, he always made sure that all family assets were in my grandmothers name, for this reason.
Lets say someone steals money from me and does pay taxes on it. Can I then recover that money from the IRS?
So… how does the client go about fact checking their own atty?
She must have gotten away with so much money…to think that this was a good outcome!!! Dud she have to pay back her clients? Sounds like not 😞
I'd like to see the stats. How often do criminals declare their ill gotten gains to the IRS and pay the taxes?
One useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three is a congress.
John Adams