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Discipline

Jul. 11, 2012

State Bar targets Glendale lawyer for alleged scheme

A Glendale attorney faces possible disbarment after he allegedly bilked an 88-year-old widow out of more than $407,000, sticking her with a $1.4 million tax bill.


By Ben Adlin


Daily Journal Staff Writer


A Glendale attorney faces possible disbarment after he allegedly bilked an 88-year-old widow out of more than $407,000 and stuck her with a $1.4 million tax bill.


The State Bar has charged Joseph B. McHugh Jr. of Glendale-based LA Law Center LLP with 18 counts of misconduct in the scheme, in which he and two others allegedly overbilled the woman, Helen Sprinkle, now 96, for what prosecutors claim were &q...

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