A disbarred attorney appeared to have been quietly rebuilding his life after a criminal conviction and disbarrment, until a new scandal involving campaign finance violations thrust him back into the spotlight.

Alan Koslow, a once prominent attorney and lobbyist convicted of money laundering, is out of prison and back at work—this time as a real estate consultant, according to a court filing. The document went unnoticed until this most recent uproar involving a mayor's arrest in an FBI sting and alleged Russian money laundering ties.

A Nov. 16 motion filed in federal court asked U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas to modify the terms of Koslow's supervised release to allow him to travel for work and use his Mercedes-Benz American Express credit card for business expenses. The document indicates he has ties to two major brokerage houses, but does not name the companies.

The filing indicates the agencies wrote letters to the court on Koslow's behalf, but the person who answered the phone in U.S. District Judge William Dimitrouleas' chambers said the documents are not public record.

“Koslow is now divorced and has obtained significant assets distributed to him from the (dissolution of marriage),” his attorney, Michael D. Orenstein, wrote in a filing that indicated an agreement with prosecutors to alter the terms of Koslow's release.

Dimitrouleas granted the motion, which described Koslow as a “model probationer.”

The order also grants Koslow permission to travel during his three years of supervised release.

Koslow is a former high-powered lobbyist and shareholder at commercial law firm Becker & Poliakoff, which has not been implicated in any wrongdoing. He grabbed headlines in 2016 for his arrest on a federal money laundering conspiracy charge in an FBI sting, and his battle with cocaine addiction. The Florida Supreme Court later revoked his law license.

“I made a blunder of monumental proportions in my life, and it cost me dearly,” he said at his Nov. 10, 2016, sentencing. Dimitrouleas sentenced Koslow to one year and a day in prison and three years' of supervised release. The judge also ordered him to pay more than $7,500 in restitution.

Having served the prison term and paid restitution, Koslow was quietly completing the second part of his sentence. But he is back in the news after the Jan. 25 arrest of Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Cooper, who is accused of money laundering and campaign finance violations.

Cooper denied the allegations, but Gov. Rick Scott on Jan. 26 issued an executive order suspending her from office.

According to Cooper's arrest warrant released Jan. 26, Koslow inadvertently aided undercover agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who posed as wealthy California developers looking to bring commercial real estate projects to Hallandale Beach. He unknowingly introduced the agents to Cooper in 2012, and told them he would work with Russian organizations to disguise kickbacks paid for political favors, according to the mayor's arrest documents.