An attorney that was convicted of defrauding the people that he was supposed to protect passed away before he could be sentenced. Paul S. Kormanik was supposed to appear in Franklin County Probate Court today to answer a contempt of court charge brought on by his failure to pay back one of his victims. Back in August Mr. Kormanik plead guilty to four counts of stealing from wards that he was the court appointed guardian of, falsifying records, and taking tax payer money. Kormanik had bragged in the past that he had the most wards of any guardianship attorney in the State of Ohio representing over 400 wards. The disgraced attorney was one of several guardians highlighted in an investigative report from May 2014 titled “Unguarded.”
See Mike Wagner, Convicted guardianship lawyer dies before sentencing, The Columbus Dispatch, October 5, 2015.
