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New York man pleads responsible to posing as lawyer, stealing over $290K from greater than 100 shoppers
A New York man who posed as a lawyer has admitted to stealing greater than $290,000 from greater than 100 shoppers who got here to him for authorized providers. (Picture from Shutterstock)
A New York man who posed as a lawyer has admitted to stealing greater than $290,000 from greater than 100 shoppers who got here to him for authorized providers.
Manhattan District Lawyer Alvin L. Bragg Jr. announced on Monday that Sean Mescall, 46, of Newburgh, New York, who stole the funds between April 2022 and January, pleaded responsible within the New York State Supreme Courtroom to at least one rely of grand larceny within the third diploma and one rely of scheme to defraud within the first diploma. He’s anticipated to serve between two and 6 years in jail.
“Sean Mescall went to excessive lengths to steal from over 100 New Yorkers, falsely posing as an lawyer offering authorized help, whereas he was truly exploiting them,” Bragg stated in a information launch.
In keeping with the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace in New York, Mescall created a faux regulation agency that glided by a number of completely different names, together with “Prospection Authorized,” “Prospection Authorized Group” and “Mescall Legislation P.C.” He marketed his fraudulent authorized providers on on-line authorized search platforms and social media. He additionally supplied false data, together with that he graduated from “Texas Tech College College of Legislation.”
In April 2024, Mescall employed an lawyer who was licensed in New York and New Jersey to work at his faux agency, the Manhattan district lawyer’s workplace stated. She started representing shoppers in his circumstances, which included class motion, discrimination and enterprise lawsuits.
“Mescall instructed this lawyer that he had graduated from regulation faculty, that he was licensed to observe regulation in New York, New Jersey and different locations, and that he had been training regulation since ‘earlier than she was born,’” the district lawyer’s workplace stated.
The New York State Supreme Courtroom additionally ordered a confession of judgment within the quantity of $294,275.63 within the case.
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