Legal Ethics
Mortgage Rescue Scheme Gets NY Attorney Disbarred for the Second Time
Kevin P. Wheatley isn’t yet 40. But he has now been disbarred—for the second time—in New York.
After losing his law license in 2002, for what the Committee on Professional Standards of the state supreme court’s appellate division called “dishonesty, fraud, deceit and misrepresentation,” he was reinstated in 2005, reports the Times-Union.
Now, having pleaded guilty in June to grand larceny and scheming to defraud concerning his role in a mortgage rescue fraud that preyed on struggling homeowners, the 38-year-old has been disbarred a second time due to the felony conviction, the newspaper recounts. He is scheduled to be sentenced later this month in the Albany County Court criminal case.
