A Westchester attorney who pleaded guilty to his role in a pop concert scam, and a Long Island attorney facing complaints over his mortgage modification work, were disbarred Wednesday by a Brooklyn appellate court.
Westchester County prosecutors said Emmanuel Bentil, of the Bentil Firm in White Plains, and another man bilked investor Kachik Mouradian out of $225,000 by falsely representing they were affiliated with agents of pop star Taylor Swift. The pair told Mouradian that Swift was going to perform at a fictitious March 2010 concert in Phoenix and persuaded Mouradian to put up $375,000.
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