Disbarred Lawyer gets 3-year sentence for posing as a former Michigan football player in quest for a job
You cannot make this up. A former Ohio lawyer has been sentenced to 37 months in a federal prison for Social Security Fraud after using fake identities in a quest for employment.
Richard Louis Crosby III, 37, of Mason, Ohio, was sentenced Monday, and was ordered to pay $171,000 in restitution to defrauded firms.
Crosby had used the name Richard Williams while applying to firms and claimed at various times to be a former Marine, a former University of Michigan football player and a Kirkland & Ellis lawyer.
The crazy thing is he was actually offered a six-figure job and, in some cases, landed signing bonuses. A California firm hired him at an annual salary of 250,000 dollars a year just a month before he was arrested.
Crosby pleaded guilty to three federal counts of Social Security fraud in July 2024. He had used identifying information for his elderly father, his girlfriend, a dead man and others
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