June 09, 2022
A Georgia federal judge has shaved more than four years off a prison sentence imposed on a former accountant of a defunct Georgia law firm for her part in a firm founder's multi-million dollar embezzlement, effectively releasing her on time served.
February 02, 2022
The Eleventh Circuit has ordered a redo of a $40.3 million restitution order against a suspended Georgia attorney convicted of embezzling more than $26 million from his now-defunct real estate law firm while upholding his 15-year prison term.
December 14, 2021
A suspended Georgia attorney convicted of embezzling more than $26 million from his now-defunct real estate law firm and its clients asked the Eleventh Circuit on Tuesday to toss his 15-year prison term as well as a $40.3 million restitution order.
May 10, 2019
A former Georgia attorney convicted of embezzling from his defunct law firm in what prosecutors had previously called a $20 million fraud said a ruling making him pay $40 million in restitution was based on "vague estimates" and fuzzy claims of reputational harm from his ex-partners.
February 12, 2019
A Georgia court has sentenced the former managing partner at a foreclosure firm to 15 years in prison for draining over $20 million from the law firm to support his lavish spending on girlfriends, golf trips and gambling.
January 31, 2019
The convicted former name partner of defunct firm Morris Hardwick Schneider should be required to pay up $19.9 million in forfeiture after treating the firm like his "personal piggybank," prosecutors told a Georgia federal court Wednesday.
January 07, 2019
Atlanta federal prosecutors asked a judge to throw the book at a former name partner of defunct firm Morris Hardwick Schneider on Friday, urging a nearly 22-year sentence for his embezzlement of more than $20 million from the firm and its clients.
January 04, 2019
The former managing partner at a foreclosure firm asked an Atlanta federal judge on Thursday for eight years in prison for embezzling what prosecutors say was more than $20 million from the now-defunct firm's accounts.
February 24, 2016
A Georgia magistrate judge on Tuesday approved a psychiatric evaluation of a currently jailed former managing partner of bankrupt Morris Schneider Wittstadt LLC for his alleged theft of $20 million from attorney escrow accounts, due to his adamant denial of being a suicidal flight risk.