Federal prosecutors have charged Joseph Scali, a veteran attorney from Orange County who was recently disbarred, with bilking $850,000 from the prospective buyer of land in Pennsylvania by “misappropriating” the buyer’s cash after putting it in escrow.
In a six-count indictment unsealed Friday in White Plains federal court—which also brought charges for tax evasion, obstructing the IRS and mail fraud, among other counts—Scali is further alleged to have lied to the Southern District while trying to fight that court’s 2014 decision disallowing him from practicing there.
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