A lawyer saddled with a judgment for taking unauthorized funds from his former firm will not be able to discharge the $125,000 debt in his Chapter 13 bankruptcy.
U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Donald Steckroth in Newark ruled on April 26 that Han-Hsien Tuan, now of Princeton-based Wong Fleming, committed a defalcation for which a discharge can be denied under the Bankruptcy Code.
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