He was not quite James “Whitey” Bulger, but federal prosecutors in Boston announced Friday the arrest in Florida of Scott Wolas, a disbarred lawyer accused of perpetrating a $1.5 million real estate investment fraud in Massachusetts.

Wolas, booted from Hunton & Williams' partnership in 1995, had reportedly used numerous aliases to remain on the run for nearly two decades. His most recent legal troubles stem from the proposed sale and demolition last year of the Beachcomber, a bar in Quincy, Massachusetts, to make way for a new high-end restaurant and development in the Boston suburb's Wollaston Beach neighborhood.

Prosecutors claim that Wolas, using the alias Eugene Grathwohl, duped at least 19 friends and co-workers into giving him $1.5 million to buy the Beachcomber and an adjacent lot. The Boston Globe, which has a detailed account of the charges against Wolas and his tortured legal history, notes that he hid his true identity while working as a broker in Quincy for Century 21 Real Estate LLC. The Beachcomber deal was set to close on Sept. 15, 2016, but Grathwohl—one of the aliases used by Wolas in Quincy—had already skipped town a week earlier.