BOSTON (AP) — Authorities say a Boston attorney swindled tens of thousands of dollars from clients and associates and used the money to lease a Mercedes-Benz and rent an $11,000 penthouse apartment.
Wassem Amin is scheduled to be arraigned Monday on 26 charges including credit card application fraud, larceny, money laundering and forgery.
Prosecutors say the 31-year-old Amin used a business partner’s identity to open several lines of credit without that person’s knowledge and using the credit cards to for $35,000 in expenses. He also allegedly embezzled nearly $50,000 from a client who expected the money to be transferred into an account for his new legal practice.
Amin could not be reached for comment and prosecutors did not yet have the name of a defense attorney.
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