A Palm Beach County attorney who allegedly stole millions of dollars from investors, including an imprisoned drug kingpin, is facing a call for disbarment by the referee overviewing his disciplinary case brought by the Florida Bar.
“This is an outrageous case, as found by the referee, of a lawyer who was required to safeguard substantial client funds but instead converted them to his own use,” said Andrew Berman, an independent ethics expert and partner at Young, Berman, Karpf & Karpf, who is not involved in the litigation. “He then attempted to cover up his misdeeds by spinning fanciful and false stories that the referee saw right through.”
