An embezzlement scheme carried out by a D.C.-based law firm’s bookkeeper led to a civil filing against PNC Bank on Monday in an effort to recover over $320,000 stolen from the firm’s legal coffers.

Former D.C. resident Katherine Emma Ross pleaded guilty last summer in D.C. federal court to charges related to writing fraudulent checks to herself on behalf of her boss, Bernard Grimm at The Law Office of Bernard S Grimm. Further complicating the issue, the account she was stealing from was marked as an Interest on Lawyer Trust Account, or an IOLTA, an often mandated pool of funds reserved for representing the indigent.

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