More Trial Lawyers Behaving Badly

November 24, 2008

A New York trial lawyer who specializes in securities class action cases has admitting to cheating the U.S. government out of $4.75 million in taxes, reports the New York Post. “Melly” Lifshitz – a major contributor to Democratic political campaigns – has “promised to resign from the [New York] state bar as a condition of staying out of jail.”