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  Suffolk County District Attorney of Massachusetts vs. Wassem Amin
  

  The following describes a pending government action that has been formally brought by a government agency but has not yet been resolved. We are providing a summary of the governments allegations, which have not yet been proven.

  On 12/5/2016 the Suffolk County District Attorney of Massachusetts announced that Wassem Amin, a suspended attorney, would appear in court to face charges that he stole funds from clients and opened credit cards in the names of colleagues to fund an extravagant lifestyle, including gambling and luxury apartments and vehicles.

  According to prosecutors, Amin, who was accepted into legal practice in 2012 and administratively suspended from practice earlier this year, started a practice known as Amin Legal Group last year and lured a college acquaintance along with a law school intern to join the firm.  According to prosecutors, Amin opened several lines of credit in the victims' names without their knowledge or consent and used them to charge expenses totaling nearly $35,000.  Amin allegedly threatened one victim by text message after learning that the victim had filed a complaint against him with the Board of Bar Overseers.

  Amin is charged with embezzling nearly $50,000 from a client who was in process of launching a business.  The victim wired the funds to Amin with the expectation that they would be transferred into an account Amin claimed he had created in the name of the new company.  Amin instead transferred the funds into his corporate accounts and used the majority of the money to pre-pay a lease for a luxury car, prosecutors said.  In response to the victim's repeated demands for the return of the money, Amin wrote a check on an account that had been closed two months earlier.

  Amin is also accused of charging expenses totaling $9,000 to the credit card of another client.  The charges were not related to any legal services.  Additional indictments charge Amin for securing the lease to an expensive penthouse apartment by providing false information, then failing to pay rent; fraudulently inducing a classmate to co-sign a student loan in 2011; altering a paycheck from a former employee in an attempt to steal more than $22,000 from the business; and writing bad checks to defraud two banks.

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