Lawyers in Trouble: One Collected Dead Client’s Pension, Another Charged With Stealing $300,000 from Client
A suspended Rhode Island lawyer has admitted to illegally collecting more that $200,000 in pension funds for a deceased client for nearly a dozen years after the man’s death, reports the Providence Journal.
Oleg Nikolyszyn, 65, pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud and one of theft from an employee benefit pension fund for collecting $234,586 from December 2003 through September 2015 in the name of a former employee of the City of Providence, the report explains.
In a separate case, Newsday reports that an attorney from Long Island was indicted on a grand larceny charge for stealing more than $300,000 from an elderly client.
Peter Rand stole funds from an irrevocable trust created by the client, a man in his 80s, between April 1, 2014, and Feb. 3, 2015, officials said.
Read the Providence Journal article.