Lawyer Who Used Fraud Proceeds to Gamble Gets Sentencing Vacated

A jury properly convicted an attorney of defrauding an elderly woman to finance his gambling habit but he will get a new sentencing hearing because the district court failed to take into account the $23,000 he returned before the fraud’s discovery, the Third Circuit held Wednesday.

In 2016, John Kelvin Conner gained the power of attorney for Sarah Fauntleroy, a senior who was dependent on care after having suffered a stroke the year before.

Conner, who was accused of consolidating Fauntleroy’s funds so he could use the money to fund his gambling addiction, argued that he had an oral agreement ...