Leaford Cameron
New Jersey Man Leaford Cameron, apparently fooled dozens of people for a decade, purporting to practice law for 10 years. He’s now facing multiple federal charges, relating to fraud from his represenation. The Philly media has started calling him ‘Scary Man‘ due to his ‘hypnotic eyes’. He has a previous conviction for unauthorized practice of law from 1993.
I’m not sure that fraud charges are really the appropriate way of attack: certainly he should be charged with practicing without a license. And while he was fraudulently holding himself out to be an attorney, if he actually worked on the cases, he was not necessarily defrauding the clients’ of their money. Ten years of this ought to get him locked up, but his crimes are less of a fraud then the attorney who takes someone’s money and doesn’t do anything on their case.
This may be an excellent plot point for the TV show ‘Suits‘ when they run out of ideas… imagine Mike facing 75 years in prison for impersonating a lawyer.
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