Ex-employee charged with using law firm trust checks to make personal mortgage payments for 7 years
After terminating a longtime employee in July, a Pennsylvania lawyer got some bad news.
An audit revealed that Lisa Drury, 43, had allegedly been paying two mortgages on her home for years from the trust account at a Stroudsburg law firm operated by attorney Thomas Dirvonas, the Allentown Morning Call and the Pocono News report.
She has been charged with four felony counts including theft and forgery in the Monroe County case, accused of stealing $170,000 over a seven-year period beginning in 2007.
She had worked at the firm since 1998.
At first, Drury made checks payable to her mortgage lenders, along with the other checks she was responsible for preparing, disguising them as business transactions, arrest documents say. Later, she allegedly arranged for automatic payments to be made electronically each month on her primary and secondary mortgages.
The articles don’t include any comment from Drury or her legal counsel.
