Wednesday, April 22, 2009

$4M Theft From Estates

Attorney J. Edward Moyler Jr. has surrendered his law license after admitting that he took more than $4 million from clients’ estates.

Moyler, who had practiced law in Franklin for 54 years, disclosed in Southampton County Circuit Court that he took money from four clients while acting as executor of their wills.

The bulk of the money was taken from the estate of Lucille K. Steinhardt, who died in October 2000.

Judge Designate William C. Andrews III entered judgments against Moyler, including one for $4,072,363.76 to the Steinhardt estate. Three other judgments were issued as well — one for the estate of Mallory Kenneth Brown for $103,000, another for Robert E. Pretlow Jr. for $55,559.87 and $17,347.33 for the estate of Issac Buster Rudolph Teachy.

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Lawyer admits to $4M theft

11 comments:

  1. Greedy J. Edward Moyler Jr. stole more than $4 million dollars?

    These judgments will never be satisfied - never.

    Moyler belongs in prison for the rest of his life working to pay off these debts.

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  2. Surrendering his license is step one. Now, let's have a prosecution and send him to jail.

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  3. No mercy for this low-life and the sad issue is this is not an isolated case, only the tip of the iceburg folks.

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  4. Lawyers have a license to steal!

    When they steal from their clients, they should always receive the maximum penalty!

    Every time.

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  5. I bet we'd all faint to know how often this is done and the greedy lawyer never gets caught.

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  6. Most of the time they don't get caught.

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  7. Moyler practiced law for 54 years - one has to wonder when he started his thieving and if it's well over $4m.

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  8. Take everything he has and sell it to reimburse the estates he stole from.

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  9. I recall a probate lawyer telling me that estate cases are the true test of one's character. All a lawyer does with these types of cases is based on honesty and trust.

    Now, that should scare the heck out of all of us - it scares me.

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  10. What gets me is there are more and more stories like this of lawyers getting caught with their hands in the cookie jar. And yet, they have the audacity to stand there in their fine suit and act superior as they point their crooked fingers at families and falsely accuse them of greed.

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  11. The blogger on the Moyler case signing his/her letters "Faith" is NOT the "Faith" from FCCC.

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