Lawyer fakes brother’s will

John Karoly, a well-known Allentown, Pennsylvania lawyer, was indicted yesterday (September 25, 2008) on charges he and two others conspired to defraud his brother’s and sister-in-law’s estates by creating fraudulent wills. 

John’s brother (Peter Karoly) and sister-in-law (Lauren Angstadt) died in February of 2007 in a plane crash.  The couple had no children and each had estates worth many millions of dollars.  Authorities assert that John, upset that he was not included in their wills prepared in 1985, decided to collect from the estates by forging wills.

See Precious Petty, Attorney John Karoly indicted on charges he faked millionaire brother’s will , LeighValley.com, Sept. 25, 2008.