Lawyers Committing Crimes (#2): Big Frauds on Old Folks

Barbara Lieberman, L, a New Jersey lawyer, lead a group stealing money from elderly people she represented. The amount stolen was $3.8M, or so, from 16 people. Of course she made various misrepresentations to her clients, as well as forging documents. She got 10 years and is to provide $3M in restitution plus testifying against here cohorts. One would expect her to be disbarred. It would be very disrespectful to say, “Oh well. It’s New Jersey.”

I, for one,  have less and less empathy for those who defraud the elderly, as the months go by.  I wonder, in fact, if there is such a thing as reverse empathy.