Disbarred Attorney, Just Keeps On Stealin'

Aisling Swift's article in the Naples News website gives us another example of why the Disciplinary authorites do all that they can do to shut down the disbarred attorney-class.  In Gary Gramer, we have a disbarred New York lawyer who pled guilty to stealing a little client money.  So what does Gramer do?

Why he takes his show on the road to the sunshine state, where he continues to practice law despite fugitive warrants and the NY disciplinary proceedings.  Oh, and he wasn't hiding, he actually had an office and multiple pending civil actions. 

When I got out of law school years ago, a lot of guys took the OurState bar, and promptly took the Florida bar, so they could "write off their Florida vacations," somone out there, please explain that one to me?  For those of us east of the Mississippi, Florida bar registration as your second state of admission was not an uncommon phenomena.  My guess is Gramer was one of those guys. 

Utah Lawyer Steals from the Dead, Gives Girlfriend Big TaTas!

This piece-of-shit (also called, "POS"--a technical expression) is Matthew "Terry" Graff.  He was a Cedar City, Utah lawyer until he got all grabby with the clients' settlement money.  Lot's of it.  Nothing new there, but it's from who he took money that caught my attention, and it is what he did with the money;  the account that follows is from Mark Havnes, Salt Lake Tribune article:

"Charges were filed against Graff in May 2009, after investigators said he stole money from Matthew Tillery and Easton Vigil. The money was from settlements the men received from the company that owned the airplane in which their wives died.   Marci Tillery and Camie Vigil were among nine employees of the Southwest Skin and Cancer Clinic in Cedar City who were killed in an Aug. 22, 2008 plane crash as they returned from a work trip to Moab. The pilot also died.  All the families received out-of-court settlements from The Leavitt Agency. But Tillery and Vigil, who retained Graff to represent them, never got their money.

Investigators said Graff used the money to pay for a house in St. George for his girlfriend, pay for her breast augmentation, and take her on a trip to Hawaii, among other things. He also spent $10,000 of the money he stole on a birthday party in Las Vegas for his wife.

'He didn't care for us, he just wanted a big paycheck,' Tillery said during Friday's hearing. 'He pretended to be a savior at the darkest time of my life. What he did has made me angry and frustrated.'

Vigil did not testify, but others who have been swindled by Graff did.   After Graff was charged last year, police and attorneys for Iron and Washington counties received more than 100 complaints about him, the Cedar City courtroom was packed Friday with people who claimed to be his victims. Many were elderly. All were angry."
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It's especially reassuring to know that our nation's law schools are pumping thousands of these men and women out on an unsuspecting public--most without a means of support, or a clue as to how to pay the bills, etc.