In court, the crook lawyer is on the other side of the bar. At the Paris criminal court, a lawyer received a one-year suspended prison sentence and a fine of 18,000 euros for “breach of trust” He defrauded them out of 187,000 euro, using a financing scheme that left his victims accusing each other.
Marine (first name has been changed) had to fight for months to exonerate herself. “When she explained that she had been robbed by her lawyer, no one believed her,” says Me Laure Boutron-Marmion, who defended her.