Former Tacoma attorney pleads guilty to theft from client

Former Tacoma attorney pleads guilty to theft from client

A former Tacoma attorney has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a vulnerable client, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. Over a 10-year period, Colby Parks, 65, transferred more than $880,000 from the victim’s accounts to ones he controlled and paid himself at least $530,000 more than he was entitled to, prosecutors said. The client had received more than $1.6 million after suffering permanent injuries in a mot…

DOJ: Former attorney pleads guilty in case of reverse mortgage misuse

A former attorney in Washington state this week pleaded guilty in federal court to defrauding a disabled client out of an estimated $800,000 — in part through the misuse of a reverse mortgage, according to an announcement by the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington. The former attorney pleaded guilty “to wire fraud for his embezzlement from a vulnerable client’s trust account,” accordi…