NEW YORK
Seventy-year-old Steven Dickman was admitted to the New York Bar Association in 1969 but resigned from the bar in 1987 after he was investigated for attorney misconduct, officials.
Apparently, that didn’t stop the disbarred Dickman from practicing law without a license and defrauding 50 clients out of $200,000, according to authorities.
Earlier today in Brooklyn federal court, U.S. District Court Judge Allyne Ross sentenced Dickman to two years and nine months in prison, officials said.
Dickman, of Brooklyn, stole an attorney’s identity and collected legal fees from more than 50 clients to whom Dickman falsely claimed he was that attorney.
The disbarred Dickman pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in December 2014.
In 2009, Dickman stole the identity of a victim-attorney and assumed that victim-attorney’s status as a member of the New York Bar. Dickman then represented himself to be the victim-attorney to putative clients in order to obtain legal fees from them.
In 2012, Dickman submitted an application to be admitted to practice law in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and falsely swore an oath affirming that his name was that of the victim-attorney, that he was an attorney, and that he was a member in good standing of the New York Bar, according to officials
As part of his sentence, Dickman was also ordered to forfeit $20,000.
The judge scheduled a restitution hearing for Dec. 18.