Then, the attorney she stole from served her with a civil suit seeking $2.2 million for the damages to him and his business.
"I don't expect to ever see a dime of it," said Bruce Harrell, whose Ashland law practice primarily deals with family law cases.
He hopes, however, that civil and criminal cases against Marissa Renee Wren, 26, will help bring attention to embezzling cases and protect vulnerable people.
Wren, 26, pleaded guilty to seven counts of first-degree forgery and charges of first-degree aggravated theft, fraudulent use of a credit card and second-degree forgery. She entered her pleas in Jackson County Circuit Court Friday morning and acknowledged that her thefts violated a professional responsibility she had toward Harrell, who was vulnerable because he had to trust her, his assistant, to pay his bills.
"This is the financial equivalent of assaulting a person in a wheelchair, over and over," prosecutor David Orr said in calling for a stringent sentence. "This is a case for people to see how the justice system serves the vulnerable."
And get this. She has a younger brother who has Down syndrome. Fucking unbelievable.
_____
With not having a car for over four months, I am not too terribly upset an Ohio person won the $207 million Mega Millions jackpot.
_____
No comments:
Post a Comment