A former lawyer pleaded guilty in Allen County Superior Court to charges of corrupt business influence and theft, admitting to stealing money from his clients.
Daniel E. Serban, 53, will be sentenced in mid-May. He pleaded guilty to two of the four charges against him – Class C felony corrupt business influence and Class D felony theft.
Arrested and charged last September, Serban admitted Monday to failing to distribute money paid into Serban Law Office’s Trust Account to the appropriate clients or to those entitled by court order to receive it.
During the course of the investigation, Serban told officers some of the money he used to pay off the original client, after he was confronted, had been taken from money put into the trust account for an estate. He told investigators he forged the name of the estate’s personal representative on the check.
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Ex-Lawyer Admits Bilking Clients
He admits it? OK, let's dispense with the formalities and send him on his way to prison then.
ReplyDeleteMore and more of these lawyer theft stories are surfacing. I wonder how many are just plain getting away with it.
ReplyDeleteHey Terry more of this going on more than you think cause they know no one is watching where is the IRS? Are they scrutinizing those getting rich in the probate gold mine? No they are going after the little guy most often those who own their small businesses playing stupid to the fact that there is big money to be recovered if only they would open their eyes and take the earplugs out of their ears.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he started out as a young, idealistic lawyer and when he went bad....
ReplyDeleteHe found out how easy it is to steal most of his buds got away with it. Oak Tree Justice bring it back bring it on.
ReplyDeleteWhats sad is there is no public advocates watching these court cases where guardian / trustees are literally getting a free pass to wreck people's lives using the law and crooked lawyers like John Dee Ulmer who this very moment is wrecking a "disabled" mother by assisting a materialistic grandmother to steal her complete accident settlement. The grandmother has committed so many infractions as trustee her daughters trust including allowing people to house themselves in her daughters home without ever paying rent while the daughter was away a then getting the daughters trust suit when the property owner filed court case for eviction against the squatters two times. The mother has sold parcels of the daughters land estate without ever notifying the daughter / beneficiary only telling her she owes higher taxes because land assessment. The woman / Trustee couldn't have known how to do this illegal activities without the Lawyers know how. The Lawyer in question is John Dee Ulmer of Goshen Indiana former Indiana state Representative 4th District. This poor woman is now destitute while her own mother and lawyer are vulchering her trust for financial gain.
ReplyDeleteI am writing on behalf of the fraud victim. I am her advocate. It is hoped that someone will put a stop to this "legal robbery by court consent" of the innocent people who are with defense.
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