Showing posts with label embezzlement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label embezzlement. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Former Zeeland attorney spent almost all $900,000 of missing client funds

Of the $900,000 that former Zeeland attorney Kenneth Hoesch took from clients’ estate trusts, only a relative pittance has been found.

He had $2,065.57 in a client trust account at Macatawa Bank and had a coin collection, appraised at $3,388, in a safety-deposit box at Huntington Bank in Zeeland.

Article here. (via mlive.com)

Thursday, April 24, 2014

Professional ethics definitions 101: Don't steal from your clients

A Grosse Pointe attorney pleaded guilty Wednesday to embezzling more than $2.5 million from his law firm's clients and laundering the money to hide his crime, according to the U.S. Attorneys office.

Kenneth Flaska, 62, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Paul D. Borman, admitting that between 2004 and 2013, he fraudulently obtained more than $2.5 million belonging to clients of his law firm. Flaska moved the money out of client accounts and into his own bank and investment accounts.

Article here.