LAWYER WITH GAMBLING PROBLEM CRAPS OUT
From: New York attorney Gary E. Rosenberg (personal injury and accident attorney and lawyer; serving Brooklyn Queens Bronx; Queens injury lawyer)
Hugh Zuber
This case has not yet been decided by New York's attorney disciplinary authorities. But there's little doubt this lawyer will be disbarred, because he's plead guilty in Federal Court to two counts of mail fraud.
Zuber currently works for the New York City Corporation Counsel - the City's lawyers. Usually defending against lawsuits by people hurt or injured in accidents, he was earning about $80,000 per year. Zuber's actions took place before he went to work for the Corporation Counsel; he has been placed on "leave."
He committed mortgage fraud and falsified papers, including forging a judge's signature, to show his victims that there were lawsuits pending where they might recover their money. This brings me back to my blawg of November 13, 2009, about disgraced attorney Bryan J. Holzberg, who also fabricated papers for phony lawsuits to show to clients while ripping them off.
Zuber claims to have had a gambling problem.
