Lawyer Who Stole From Clients Gets 46-Month Max; Ex-Clients Say It Isn’t Enough Prison Time
A Georgia lawyer who admitted to stealing hundreds of thousands from clients was sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay restitution, reports The Florida Times-Union.
Before Chief U.S. District Judge Lisa Godbey Wood sentenced him, Donald Carlton Gibson told Wood that he had tried his very first case in the courtroom where he stood before her with a “surreal sense of shame…”
“Instead of that man full of promise,’’ Gibson said, “I am here to be judged for what I am. I’m a thief.”