PI Lawyer Is Charged with Evading Taxes
Already in hot water for allegedly stealing $2.2 million from client settlements, a New York personal injury lawyer now faces a tax evasion case, too.
Marc Bernstein, 55, is accused by the Manhattan district attorney’s office of failing to file returns between 2003 and 2007 and understating his income in his 2008 return, reports the New York Law Journal in an article reprinted in New York Lawyer (reg. req.). Authorities say he owes about $220,000 in taxes.
A former name partner of Bernstein & Bernstein, he is the son of an ex-New York Supreme Court judge, the legal publication notes. Bernstein was suspended from the practice of law in April.
Earlier related coverage:
ABAJournal.com: “Prominent Lawyers Charged with Failing to File Personal Income Tax Returns”
ABAJournal.com (May 2009): “NY PI Lawyer Accused of Stealing $650K from Clients’ Cheap Settlements”
