A lawyer disbarred earlier this year for misappropriating client funds admitted Wednesday to criminal charges that he thieved $885,000 from his firm’s trust and business accounts.

Timothy Provost, formerly of Freehold’s Provost & Colrick, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Michael Shipp in Trenton to one count of mail fraud in connection with embezzlements alleged to have taken place between April 2004 and January 2011.