An interim suspension has been imposed by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court as a result of a guilty plea described in a press release from the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

United States Attorney William M. McSwain announced that Angelo Perrucci, Jr., of Bangor, PA, has pleaded guilty to five counts of wire fraud before United States District Court Judge Joseph F. Leeson, Jr. The charges arise out of Perrucci’s scheme to defraud the estate of a client and its heirs by taking funds from the estate for his own personal use.

The defendant is an attorney licensed to practice law in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was contacted by his former neighbor to provide end-of-life legal services for her ill father. Following the father’s death in early 2016, Perrucci filed a motion in court seeking to be appointed as the administrator of the estate. The court granted the motion, and the defendant opened a bank account in the name of the estate. Within two weeks of opening the estate account, Perrucci withdrew more than $36,000 for his own personal use. He continued this fraud for over three years. Between March 2016 and May 2019, Perrucci fraudulently issued more than 80 checks to himself, stealing more than $300,000 and depleting the estate account.

(Mike Frisch)