Clemmons Sentenced to 18 Years

Suspended probate lawyer John E. Clemmons has been sentenced to 18 years in prison.

The 66-year-old Tennessean pleaded guilty to perjury, theft and defrauding TennCare, the state’s Medicare managed-care program.  Clemmons admitting to stealing $1.3 million from three conservatorship clients and has been cooperating with a probe concerning claims by other former clients that he victimized them as well.

See Martha Neil, Probate Attorney Takes Plea, Gets 18 Years in $1.3M Theft Case as Investigation Continues, ABA Journal, Nov. 15, 2013.

Special thanks to Joel Dobris (Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law) for bringing this article to my attention.