Former lawyer gets prison time after posing as BigLaw alum, former football player in quest for jobs

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Former lawyer will get jail time after posing as BigLaw alum, former soccer participant in quest for jobs

By Debra Cassens Weiss

March 13, 2025, 9:00 am CDT

Up to date: An Ohio lawyer has been sentenced to 37 months in jail for Social Safety fraud after utilizing faux identities in a quest for regulation agency jobs.

Richard Louis Crosby III, 37, of Mason, Ohio, was sentenced Monday, in line with Reuters and a March 10 press launch. Along with serving time in jail, Crosby should pay $171,000 in restitution to defrauded corporations.

Crosby had used the identify Richard Williams whereas making use of to corporations and claimed at numerous instances to be a former Marine, a former College of Michigan soccer participant and a Kirkland & Ellis lawyer, in line with the press launch.

He used faux identities to get job affords with not less than seven corporations that always provided six-figure salaries and, in some instances, signing bonuses, the press launch mentioned. One California agency employed Crosby at an annual wage of $250,000 the month earlier than his federal indictment.

Crosby pleaded responsible to a few federal counts of Social Safety fraud in July 2024. He had used figuring out info for his aged father, his girlfriend, a lifeless man and others, federal prosecutors mentioned.

Crosby used the faux identities starting in June 2021, after he indicated that he meant to resign from the apply of regulation. Crosby was indicted within the state on theft costs in June 2021 and November 2021, in line with the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of Ohio. “After his indictments, the U.S. District Court docket for the Southern District of Ohio entered an order disbarring Crosby,” the information launch states. Nonetheless, he utilized at a second agency in June 2022.

The Supreme Court docket of Ohio’s listing nonetheless lists Crosby as “Resigned-Self-discipline Pending,” and an worker within the clerk’s workplace confirmed that he has not been disbarred by the Supreme Court docket of Ohio.

He pleaded responsible within the Ohio theft instances in Might 2023 and was sentenced to probation the following month.

Up to date on March 14 to notice that whereas the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace for the Southern District of Ohio refers to him as disbarred, the Supreme Court docket Of Ohio Lawyer Listing refers to him as resigned with self-discipline pending.

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