WHAT A HEEL: “Christian” Attorney Plunders Estates, Spends Money On Hookers
Disbarred Erie lawyer J. Gregory Moore, 62, was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison on two felony counts of mail fraud for stealing $178,500 from clients' estates in his care. The Erie Times-News reports that prosecutors brought charges against Moore after he confessed to the state Disciplinary Board for lawyers that he had “drained nearly everything from the estate of Norma Garrett, who had lived on a poverty-level income but saved thousands.” Moore – who “advertised his law practice as having Christian standards” - also stole money from the estate of another client, Anne Ackroyd. Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill Jr. also ordered Moore to make restitution. Moore's attorney had asked the judge to sentence his client to probation, but federal prosecutors argued for a sentence of 21 to 27 months behind bars because “he spent the money to live a double life, including using prostitutes,” reports The Associated Press.
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