Former Connecticut U.S. Attorney Harold James Pickerstein faced up to 41 months in prison for embezzling more than $600,000 from a trust fund, money that had belonged to an incarcerated client. But Pickerstein, who has been in private practice for many years, will spend only 30 days behind bars, as a federal judge said his good works in the legal community and for friends should be taken into account.
U.S. District Judge Victor Bolden also sentenced Pickerstein to three years of supervised release, the first six months of which will be on home detention. Pickerstein, 69, of Fairfield, pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud in January. He gave up his law license in 2014; he had most recently been practicing at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter.
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