A personal injury attorney and his wife who were indicted for pocketing insurance proceeds and failing to pay nearly $700,000 in taxes should have reduced sentences due to their gambling and alcohol addictions, the government told a Kentucky federal court.
Attorney Andrew Clooney and his wife Christel, who managed his office, were indicted in April 2023 for operating a wire fraud scheme between 2016 and 2018. In the scheme, Andrew negotiated settlements with insurance companies on the behalf of his clients, then deposited that money into a Interest on Lawyers’ Trust Account—used to hold funds belonging to legal clients—without distributing ...
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