If you’re among the crowd of job-seekers, you’ve probably gone to your career services office, visited job search Web sites, or talked to your friend’s sister’s boyfriend’s friend who knew some guy that worked at a law firm.
Chances are you may have even looked on Craigslist in the “Legal/Paralegal” jobs section.
The latest cautionary Craigslist tale comes to us from The O.C., and this time it involves an attorney. Well, "attorney."
Cindy Carcamo of The Orange County Register reports that Harold Goldstein – a man who previously served a five-year prison sentence for posing as an immigration attorney – was arrested by the FBI on Sunday after the agency found a Craigslist advertisement he placed soliciting law students for the same activity that he was convicted for in 2005.
Carcamo writes: “At the time of his 2002 arrest, he ran a Newport Beach law firm that employed a staff of 12, including three licensed lawyers.”
Apparently, Goldstein's attorney fakeout was only discovered by an associate after Goldstein asked the associate to modify the terms of his supervised release from prison for fraud in another case.
Once a con man, always a con man.
According to the L.A. Times, in 1976, Goldstein was convicted of mail fraud for selling $1 million in phony gold contracts in 1976, and in 1980, the Los Angeles district attorney charged him with stealing $4 million from small businesses seeking loans at a phony overseas bank he and a partner had established.
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