Thursday, January 29, 2009

Attorney Charged With Stealing Millions From Guardian Accounts

Law firm has been indicted for money laundering, grand larceny and a scheme to defraud

Brooklyn lawyer has been charged with stealing more than $4 million between 2001 and 2008 from guardianship bank accounts he supervised for incapacitated elderly people and children.

Steven T. Rondos, 44, and his law firm, Raia & Rondos in Brooklyn, have been indicted for money laundering, grand larceny, a scheme to defraud and offering a false instrument for filing, Manhattan District Attorney Robert M. Morgenthau said in a statement.

Rondos, who was born in Canada but is a U.S. citizen, was arrested in his Ridgewood, N.J., home early Wednesday morning and taken to the Bergen County, N.J., jail. He was listed as a "fugitive from justice" on the jail's Web site.

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