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Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges
Disbarred Teaneck Attorney Continued To Practice Law, Pocketed Funds, Prosecutor Charges A Teaneck attorney continued to practice law after being disbarred, using client funds for himself, said authorities who arrested him. With his previous attorney trust account seized by the state Supreme Court, 57-year-old Barry D. Friedman deposited money from new clients into a business and personal account that he used “for his own purposes,” Acting Bergen County Prosecutor Dennis Calo said Wednesday. New Jersey’s highest court first suspended Friedman’s license to practice in the state last January, after his attorney trust account reached a negative balance three times and he failed to…