Georgia Real Estate Attorney Sentenced for Embezzling $3 Million

Matthew Allen Dickason has been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling more than $3 million from his clients, the Justice Department said Tuesday.

The disbarred Georgia real estate attorney was sentenced to 27 months of imprisonment, three years of supervised release, and ordered to pay restitution in the amount of more than $3 million, according to the DOJ.

He pleaded guilty to misappropriating millions from clients by repeatedly using one client’s money to pay his own or another client’s expenses as well as causing false and misleading information to be entered into his law firm’s accounting system, the DOJ ...