Crime & Safety
Fraud Charges Reported Against Disbarred Edgartown Lawyer
Prosecutors say John C. McBride fraudulently filed documents indicating that liens had been released on homes he owned in Marblehead and Edgartown, according to Cape Cod Online.
A former Edgartown attorney who was disbarred in 2007 and in May of this year admitted to sufficient facts in a string of fraud and forgery charges was back in court last week, according to a Cape Cod Online report.
John C. McBride was charged July 1 in U.S. District Court in Boston with "endeavoring to obstruct and impede the due administration of internal revenue laws and bank fraud," Cape Cod Online reports.
Prosecutors say McBride, 64, fraudulently filed documents indicating that liens had been released on homes he owned in Marblehead and Edgartown, according to the report, which adds that he could receive a sentence of up to 30 years in prison and a $1 million fine if convicted of bank fraud and up to three years and a $250,000 fine if found guilty of tax evasion.
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