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Personal injury lawyer accused of grand theft | Crime, Crashes and Fires
A own harm attorney accused of thieving a lot more than $840,000 from shoppers was arrested Feb. 27 by Pinellas County Sheriff’s deputies, Sheriff Bob Gualtieri declared in a information meeting. Christopher Michael Reynolds, 44, of Pinellas Park, opened his personal practice in Seminole in 2015 and mostly represented purchasers wounded in motor vehicle crashes. In accordance to Gualtieri, at minimum 16 consumers experienced their instances settled, then had their dollars stolen by Reynolds. In accordance to information provided by the sheriff’s business office, the initially recognised instance of Reynolds thieving cash from consumers was in December 2018. When consumers initially retained Reynolds as their law firm, he continually responded…
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Mississippi fires attorney investigating welfare fraud case
The state welfare division has fired Brad Pigott, the former U.S. attorney it contracted to claw back thousands and thousands in misspent federal cash from dozens of people today in Mississippi’s sprawling welfare scandal. The termination will come about a 7 days soon after Pigott submitted a subpoena on the University of Southern Mississippi Athletic Foundation for its communication with many noteworthy people, such as former Gov. Phil Bryant, to get to the base of why it been given $5 million in welfare resources to construct a volleyball stadium. “All I did, and I imagine all that brought about me to be terminated from representing the division or having something…
