White-Collar Crime
Ex-Attorney Gets 21 Months for Stealing $343K from Law Firm
A disbarred Georgia lawyer was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison yesterday for stealing a little over $343,000 from the law firm at which the then-attorney then worked.
Steven Zagoria, 59, was found guilty, according to prosecutors, of forging a partner’s endorsement on checks to the firm for attorney’s fees and then depositing the money into his personal account rather than the firm’s account, reports the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
He was disbarred in January for the conduct, according to a Georgia Supreme Court opinion reprinted by Findlaw.
An Associated Press article says the crime was discovered by the unidentified law firm in an audit of its books.
