A Hollywood lawyer was disbarred Thursday after hiring a felon already convicted of multimillion-dollar wire fraud who later went on to steal about $4.8 million from the firm’s trust account after he was left unsupervised.

Randall Gilbert, a construction lawyer with the small firm Gilbert Law Group, knew he was hiring paralegal Steven Sacks fresh out of federal prison. But the attorney did not dig into Sacks’ work history or criminal past, which involved embezzling nearly $8 million in New York.