WHAT A HEEL!: NYC Investigation Stops Ambulance Chaser In His Tracks
The Manhattan District Attorney’s office has ferreted out a dozen personal injury lawyers who used runners to bribe hospital workers to get confidential medical information about car accident victims so that they could pitch their services to them. One of them, Richard Boter, who was disbarred last month, has pleaded guilty to stealing $148,000 from at least 20 clients by settling cases without their permission and forging their signatures on insurance company release forms so he could get the funds paid directly to him. Under the terms of a deal he cut with the D.A., Boter will serve at least one year in prison and will pay $160,000 in restitution and forfeiture, reports New York Law Journal.
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