Lawyer Defrauds Client Estate

John Karoly, a prominent member of the Bar in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was indicted in September on charges of conspiring to defraud the estates of his brother and sister-in-law by creating fraudulent wills. Peter Karoly and his wife Lauren Angstadt died in a plane crash in 2007 without children - but with estates worth several million dollars. John, upset that he was left out of his brother’s 1985 will, remedied the situation by creating fake wills that intended to supercede the authentic wills.