Indicted Defense Lawyer Makes Unusual Filing in Civil SEC Case

A 56-year-old Georgia securities law practitioner and another man have been criminally charged in federal court in North Carolina concerning an alleged interstate investment fraud.

But that shouldn't prevent defense lawyer Gregory Bartko from continuing to represent a client in a claimed $53 million civil fraud case in federal court in Detroit, he says in a court filing, since the two cases are unrelated and his client consents.

U.S. District Judge David Lawson, who is presiding over the so-called Billionaire… full story