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Greedy Attorney Bruce Matson Ordered to Jail Directly After Court Hearing

Greedy Attorney Bruce Matson was sentenced to 44 months in federal prison related to his theft of $4 million of bankruptcy trust...

Lawyers for Bruce Matson asked Monday for a 37-month prison sentence for the former chief legal officer at now defunct law firm...

Bruce Matson was charged via the criminal information process, which does not require a grand jury indictment.

I disbursed the $2.5 million as discretionary bonuses and that I preserved (an additional) $341,000 in an escrow account which was in...

Philadelphia Lawyer Michael Bradley, 50, was disbarred in 2019 over the alleged theft of $500,000 intended for a client disabled in a...

Carla B. Gaines, an attorney formerly licensed in Georgia, has been sentenced to federal prison for stealing client money and lying about...

Houston attorney JL Sadick hit with a federal lawsuit alleging he mishandled more than $1 million in escrow funds in a botched...

Lawyer Stewart D. Pollak misappropriated funds while acting as an escrow agent in a turnover proceeding, according to the panel. Entrusted with...