A lawyer was disbarred for hiring and not supervising a convicted felon who embezzled nearly $5 million from the lawyer’s trust account over four years, the Florida Supreme Court said Mar. 22.
Florida lawyer Randall Lawrence Gilbert hired Steven Sacks after he got out of jail for wire fraud, the court said. The court’s opinion outlined how Gilbert ignored warnings from Sacks’ probation officer about Sacks working in a law firm and even gave him access to his firm’s trust account. Sacks stole $20,000 from Gilbert, was fired and then rehired by Gilbert and promoted to the firm’s CFO, the ...
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