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Lawyer who stole more than $1M from his law firm gets disbarred

By Debra Cassens Weiss

March 28, 2024, 12:16 pm CDT

A lawyer accused of using his law firm as “a personal gold mine” has been disbarred after he admitted stealing more than $1 million from the entity.

The Appellate Division’s First Judicial Department of the New York Supreme Court disbarred lawyer Arthur G. Cohen in a March 26 opinion noted by the Legal Profession Blog.

Law360 has coverage.

Cohen pleaded guilty in September 2023 to grand larceny, tax fraud and perjury. According to the New York appeals court, the conviction stemmed from Cohen’s admission that he stole more than $1 million over six years from his firm, failed to declare the income on his tax returns, and falsely claimed in a lawsuit that he had been wrongly accused.

Cohen’s firm was the now-defunct Gordon & Silber, according to previous coverage by Reuters.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg had claimed that Cohen used his position as a senior equity partner and treasurer to turn his firm into “a personal gold mine.”

When he pleaded guilty, Cohen admitted stealing about $1.2 million from the firm between January 2014 and February 2020, according to a September press release by the district attorney’s office. He directed the firm to pay the credit cards for him and his family, charged personal expenses to firm credit cards and overpaid himself in 2019, according to the press release.

He allegedly used firm money to pay for luxury hotel stays, to buy a $40,000 diamond-encrusted Cartier watch, and to buy a $57,000 diamond ring.

Cohen was sentenced in October to 2.5 to 7.5 years in prison.

Massachusetts‘ highest court reinstated the first-degree murder conviction of a woman who in 2009 killed her former neighbor and cut her open to steal her baby.

A jury in 2014 convicted Julie Corey of first-degree murder and aggravated kidnapping of 23-year-old Darlene Haynes. But five years later her felony murder conviction was tossed, with a judge saying that there wasn’t enough evidence to prove she committed aggravated kidnapping during the killing. Corey also appealed for a new trial on the grounds that she had ineffective counsel, but that was denied.

On Monday, the Supreme Judicial Court reversed the lower court’s decision and reinstated the first-degree murder conviction.

Haynes’ landlord entered the Worchester apartment on July 27, 2009, over concerns about her pets. The landlord was met with a “very foul” smell when he entered the apartment. He walked into a bedroom closet and pulled on a blanket when a “leg fell out.” Haynes, who was 8 months pregnant at the time of her death, had an electrical cord around her neck along with a nine-inch incision on her abdomen. The baby was gone.

Authorities in Kansas are searching for the people who are responsible for going to a Wichita park in the middle of the night and hauling off with a Jackie Robinson statue.

The theft happened around midnight Thursday at the Jackie Robinson Pavilion in McAdams Park on Wichita’s northside. Wichita police released surveillance video of a pickup truck they think is involved. The thieves cut off the statue at the ankles, leaving only Robinson’s shoes behind, and loaded it into the bed of the pick-up truck before driving away. Cops say the value of the theft is about $75,000.

“When I received notification of this, [it was] one of the few times in life I’m speechless,” said Wichita City Councilman Brandon Johnson at a press conference Friday. “This horrendous, disgusting act really caused me a pause. And it caused pause because of the impact no matter the motivation of those who were involved.”