A disbarment in the wake of a criminal conviction imposed by the New York Appellate Division for the Fourth Judicial Department.

The court imposed reciprocal discipline based on a Nevada consent to disbarment

The Washington Times reported

A former court-appointed financial guardian, her office manager, her husband and her lawyer took plea deals Monday in what authorities are calling the biggest financial abuse case of its kind in Nevada. April Parks and office manager Mark Simmons each pleaded an equivalent of no contest to felony exploitation of a vulnerable person, theft and perjury to avoid trial on charges that they spent more than six years overbilling for services and siphoning money from accounts of people they had been appointed by courts to protect.

Several of the more than 10 victims and their family members watching from the courtroom gallery became increasingly emotional as Parks, 53, stood in shackles and admitted that her business called A Private Professional Guardian LLC systematically stole thousands of dollars from hundreds of wards.

Guardianship can be authorized after a court finds that a person needs help to care for their own health and wealth.

The list of Parks’ schemes and victims took prosecutor Ray P. Raman more than 20 minutes to read. Wards were billed for bank deposits made in person rather than by direct deposit and for filing court documents that could have been submitted online. They were billed extra for home visits made to deliver holiday gifts.

“This cost me more than $1 million in assets,” victim Rudy North said later. He described how he and his wife, 80, now share a bedroom in their daughter’s Las Vegas home.

Parks, 53, remains jailed and could face 33 to 84 years in state prison at sentencing Jan. 4.

Simmons, 49, could face 21 to 54 years in prison.