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\nA former Louisville attorney has been sentenced to federal prison for illegally defrauding several estates and their beneficiaries.<\/p>\n
\nA former Louisville attorney has been sentenced to federal prison for illegally defrauding several estates and their beneficiaries.<\/p>\n
According to court documents, 59 year-old James Carol Worthington was sentenced to three years and five months behind bars, followed by three years of supervised release on a wire fraud charge.<\/p>\n
Worthington used his role as a lawyer and trustee to defraud several estates and their beneficiaries of more than $585,000 between October 2019 and October 2020 “for his own personal use.”<\/p>\n
Court documents show Worthington made “unauthorized withdrawals from the six trusts and estates,” that included writing a check to withdraw $5,000 from one victim’s trust in February 2020.<\/p>\n
Along with his prison sentence, Worthington has also been ordered to pay restitution to six victims.<\/p>\n
There is no parole in the federal system.
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