An attorney and financial adviser formerly from The Villages has been disbarred for 10 years.
The Florida Supreme Court took away the law license for William Abruzzino II, retroactive to June 2011, as part of his punishment for raiding $202,000 from a client with Alzheimer's disease.
Abruzzino, 48, is serving a five-year prison sentence for taking the funds from Marlene Scippa, a 72-year-old woman who is now living at an Ocala nursing home. He has been ordered to repay Scippa the funds and to also serve ten years of probation after his prison term.
As her former attorney and financial adviser, Abruzzino was trustee of $1 million set aside for her long-term care. However, as her illness progressed, he regularly withdrew $700 in cash and wrote out $9,000 checks to himself, according to court documents.
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Villages attorney William Abruzzino disbarred following elderly exploitation sentence
The problem is not William Abruzzino or other lawyers who misuse their client's funds.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is the Bar Association which permits it in the way they set up the IOLTA system.
I believe he should have been disbarred for good. No second chance.
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