Ex-Lawyer Gets Probation for Taking Money from 2nd Law Firm
Disbarred in New Jersey in 2004 for taking money from another law firm (it was later repaid), ex-attorney Charles Epstein has been put on probation for five years for stealing $12,500 from an Edison firm while he worked there.
He pleaded guilty earlier this year to third-degree theft and admitted that he took the money from Eichen Levinson & Crutchlow in 2004, which prosecutors said he obtained by cashing four client checks to the firm. As part of the sentence imposed Monday in the Middlesex County case, he was also ordered to repay the remaining $11,050 due to the firm, reports the Star-Ledger.
Epstein was disbarred in 2004 for knowingly misappropriating $6,800 in checks he received from clients of another law firm while employed as an associate there, according to Disciplinary Summaries (scroll down) maintained by the state Office of Attorney Ethics.
The newspaper article says the earlier misappropriation occurred in 2000 and 2001.
Epstein was not prosecuted in the earlier case.
