(Photo: Atstock Productions/Shutterstock.com)Ex-Lawyer Pleads Guilty to Stealing From Clients
“Mr. Cheatham violated his position of trust as an attorney, and even more egregiously, did so against elderly clients,” Cobb County Assistant District Attorney David Williamson said.
July 22, 2019 at 11:41 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Daily Report
A disbarred Georgia lawyer has pleaded guilty to stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from elderly clients.
Anthony Eugene Cheatham, now 63, had a solo law office on Main Street in Acworth handling real estate transactions and elder law. He was admitted to the State Bar of Georgia in 1991 after graduating from Georgia State University College of Law. But the bar suspended his license in June 2018. The Georgia Supreme Court disbarred him in October 2018.
A bar special master and the Cobb County Sheriff's Office have investigated complaints that he diverted funds from clients' Interest on Lawyer Trust Accounts.
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