An insurance company has sued a Villa Rica attorney and alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation after more than a half-million dollars meant to settle a claim was misdirected to the lawyer’s trust account and vanished.
The missing money was part of $3.1 million settlement that ended up in the account of James “Jay” Davis III in what the complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Georgia described as a fraudulent scheme involving the lawyer and an unknown number of “John Doe” co-defendants.
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