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Squibbling squibbles way to indictment

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anteater

Senior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? This is in PA.

For all you squibbling fans... A Squibble Too Far

Two weeks after his brother Peter and sister-in-law were killed in a plane crash in February 2007, John P. Karoly Jr. learned he wasn't named as a beneficiary in their wills.

Karoly, a high-profile Lehigh Valley lawyer, requested a delay in probating the wills, claiming Peter and his wife, Dr. Lauren Angstadt, filed updated wills in 2006 that gave John Karoly a significant portion of their multimillion-dollar estate.

But the new wills were fraudulent, according to a federal grand jury in Philadelphia, which on Thursday indicted Karoly, 58, his son John ''J.P.'' Karoly III, 28, and Dr. John J. Shane, 72, charging them with taking part in a carefully crafted scheme to defraud the estates of Peter Karoly and Angstadt by using the phony wills......

When John Karoly learned that Peter's authentic will, filed in 1985, was submitted for probate to Northampton County Court on Feb. 15, 2007, Karoly created fraudulent wills for his brother and sister-in-law and subsequently enlisted Shane to sign them as a witness.....
Feds: Karoly faked wills -- themorningcall.comWhat is the name of your state (only U.S. law)?
 


anteater

Senior Member
A squibbling attorney making a fake will? I'm imagining what it was like for him answering to the judge. :eek:
He'll have his chance. The DA declined to investigate, saying that it was just a probate issue. But, someone got the Feds interested, the Feebies raided his home, and the indictments flowed.

His attorney says that it is all "payback" since the squibbling has successfully sued several police departments for use of excessive force. Yeah, right!
 

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