A disbarred attorney pleaded guilty yesterday to bankruptcy fraud for filing falsified court papers on behalf of an unwitting client. Bryan J. Holzberg of Suffolk County pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud in the Eastern District after misrepresenting to a client that he had filed a bankruptcy petition when he had not done so. He eventually filed court papers that contained a forged signature and altered dates, according to the Sept. 7 indictment, United States v. Holzberg, cr-11-0620. Mr. Holzberg then gave his client a forged discharge order that had never been issued by a bankruptcy judge.
Mr. Holzberg was released on bail at his August arraignment and faces a maximum five-year sentence. He pleaded guilty to bankruptcy fraud but entered no plea to forgery of a bankruptcy judge’s signature before Eastern District Judge Joanna Seybert (See Profile), sitting in Central Islip.
