[Herald-Dispatch.com]
Leonard S. Coleman, who formerly earned $240,000 a year as a partner in a West Virginia law firm, now works at Kmart—and that’s the good news.
The bad news for Coleman is that U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. sentenced him to 33 months in prison in federal court on Wednesday for diverting almost $200,000 of legal fees owed to his former law firm into his own bank account.
Coleman pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in August. After the embezzlement was discovered, Goodwin & Goodwin managing partner Tom Goodwin fired Coleman in May 2005.
The following year, the State Bar stripped Coleman of his law license.
"Yours has been a tragic fall from grace and good fortune," Judge Copenhaver said Wednesday.
Leonard S. Coleman, who formerly earned $240,000 a year as a partner in a West Virginia law firm, now works at Kmart—and that’s the good news.
The bad news for Coleman is that U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver Jr. sentenced him to 33 months in prison in federal court on Wednesday for diverting almost $200,000 of legal fees owed to his former law firm into his own bank account.
Coleman pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in August. After the embezzlement was discovered, Goodwin & Goodwin managing partner Tom Goodwin fired Coleman in May 2005.
The following year, the State Bar stripped Coleman of his law license.
"Yours has been a tragic fall from grace and good fortune," Judge Copenhaver said Wednesday.
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