Legal Industry News
July 1, 2009
Ex-Latham Partner Gets Jail Time for Defrauding Clients and the Firm
Samuel Fishman, formerly a mergers & acquisitions partner in the New York office of Latham & Watkins, was sentenced Friday to 15 months in prison, followed by three years of supervised release. The Southern District of New York judge also ordered Fishman to pay a $10,000 fine and $350,000 in restitution to Latham for defrauding both clients and the firm.
Fishman pleaded guilty to a single count of mail fraud in March 2008. He admitted that he had billed fraudulent expenses to clients by inflating some reimbursable expenses and mischaracterizing some nonreimbursable costs as reimbursable costs – labeling local meals and…
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