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Prosecutor: Glen Rock Art Dealer Posing As Lawyer Pocketed $37,000 Of Client's Money
A self-employed Glen Rock art dealer barred from practicing law nearly 20 years ago posed as an attorney to pocket $37,000 from an unwitting victim, said authorities who arrested him.
The victim told authorities that he hired William T. McCue, 71, who was disbarred in 1998, to represent him in an estate settlement, Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Friday.
The victim said he paid McCue $15,500.00 in legal and professional fees for the estate work but later learned that he’d been disbarred, Calo said.
Investigators found that McCue also forged the victim’s signatures on $21,5…
Suspended Garfield Lawyer Pocketed $90,000 Of Clients' Money For Himself, Authorities Charge
A Garfield attorney swiped $90,000 from two clients in real estate deals while he suspended from practicing law, said authorities who arrested him.
Alfred Ramos, 38, “received the funds into his attorney’s trust account and then, instead of forwarding them to his clients, used them for his own purposes,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said.
Ramos was under suspension at the time, under a July 3, 2018 order of the New Jersey Supreme Court, Calo said.
He’s scheduled for a Feb. 13 first appearance in Central Judicial Processing Court on two counts of misapplication of entrusted f…
