Criminal
Jun. 12, 2003
Attorney Faces Five Years for Embezzling
LOS ANGELES - Former Santa Monica attorney John Patrick Maginnis pleaded no contest Tuesday to embezzling nearly $200,000 from two former clients.
Maginnis, 57, who resigned from the state bar last year, faces up to about 5 1/2 years in state prison if he fails to repay the two women by his August 6 sentencing date, said Deputy District Attorney William Penz...