A disbarred Long Island attorney who told a client that a state judge had signed off on a $24,000 settlement has been charged with possessing a forged document, Nassau County District Attorney Kathleen M. Rice announced Friday. In January 2006, Bryan Holzberg, 53, of Port Washington, allegedly gave a client a document indicating his business dispute had settled. The document was purportedly signed by Nassau Supreme Court Justice Anthony L. Parga (See Profile). In fact, no such case was assigned to Justice Parga, and the judge had never signed any order, Ms. Rice said.

Mr. Holzberg had previously shown his client numerous legal documents he allegedly filed in the case, although no actual lawsuit was ever brought. Disbarred in June after pleading guilty in Suffolk County for possessing a forged instrument, Matter of Holzberg, 2007-06498 (NYLJ, June 22), Mr. Holzberg now faces a charge of second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument, with a maximum seven-year sentence if convicted. His attorney, Richard A. Librett of Garden City, said Mr. Holzberg would plead not guilty. - Vesselin Mitev

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