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Ethics/Professional Responsibility

Jun. 24, 2014

Ex-lawyer sentenced to 12 years in prison for stealing $780,000

Peter David Nitschke of Irvine ripped off nine clients, including taking more than $720,000 from two elderly sisters.

By Don J. DeBenedictis

Daily Journal Staff Writer


SANTA ANA - Former Irvine lawyer Peter David Nitschke was sentenced to 12 years in prison Friday for stealing $780,000 from nine clients, including more than $720,000 from two elderly sisters.


The sisters had come to Nitschke, a family friend and the president of their church, seeking help with property and funds belonging to their late mother. He told them to give him a cashier's check for the money, which he p...

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