Monday, August 10, 2009

Georgia Attorney Indicted In $950K Embezzlement Scheme

Benjamin Sheftall Eichholz, 58, and an attorney based in Savannah, Georgia, has been indicted on 77 felony counts alleging he embezzled some $950,000 from employee pension benefit plans for employees of his own law firm. According to prosecutors, Eichholz' scheme began in or about 2001 and lasted until late 2008. Eichholz is also alleged to have filed false documents with the US Department of Labor in an effort to cover up the scheme.

Read the story here and here.

Read the DOJ announcement here.

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