Attorney Jailed After Trying to Revoke His Guilty Plea

In Rhode Island, federal judge William Smith, called an estate planning lawyers actions in a fraud case both “bizarre” and unjustified. Attorney Joseph Caramadre, tried to revoke his guilty plea made last November in a $30 million dollar elder insurance fraud case. Caramadre had pleaded guilty to defrauding people on their death beds into creating insurance investments in their names. The judge dismissed the attorney’s request for a new trial. Additionally, the judge made it clear he was outraged by the lawyers actions when he agreed with prosecutors that Caramadre should go to jail because he was a flight risk.

See Martha Nell, Federal Judge Jails Estate Lawyer as Flight Risk, Nixes ‘Bizarre’ Effort to Revoke Plea, ABA Journal, May 21, 2013.