White-Collar Crime
Disbarred South Fla. Lawyer Gets 1 Year for Stealing Client Insurance Settlements
Posted Oct 30, 2008 12:38 PM CST
By Martha Neil
A former South Florida attorney was sentenced last week to 366 days in prison for stealing client insurance settlement money.
Anthony Scalese had faced a maximum sentence of up to 30 years on the original charges against him of organized fraud, grand theft and uttering forged documents. "He pleaded no contest to two felony charges of organized scheme to defraud and forgery," reports the Insurance Journal.
Initially arrested late last year, he has since been disbarred, the publication reports. He was also sentenced to 15 years of probation, and must pay a total of $113,500 in restitution to at least five clients.
Additional coverage:
Miami Herald: "Pembroke Pines lawyer gets year and day for theft"
Updated at 5:15 p.m. to correct a typographical error.
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Comments
AFA
Oct 30, 2008 4:09 PM CST
Quoting from above—> “...had faxed a maximum ...”
So people are having their sentences faxed to them now? What’s the world coming to!
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Al Tidom
Oct 31, 2008 5:23 AM CST
This is despicable. A lawyer stealing the client’s insurance money. You cannot hire a crook or you get what you pay for.
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ng
Nov 1, 2008 6:24 AM CST
More evidence that a license to practice law is a license to steal. Another Florida man was sentenced to 9 years in prison for stealing a pair of pants from KMart. He was not a lawyer and had two prior convictions.
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