Post by Logan on Jun 19, 2016 5:04:03 GMT -6
After federal felony conviction, Maine attorney gets a second chance
SACO — Gary Prolman knows exactly where he’ll be on July 1 at 12:01 a.m.
That’s the moment he’ll be reinstated as an attorney in Maine following his federal conviction on a felony money laundering charge. He plans to go outside his Saco law office and rehang the sign in front, an immediate announcement that he’s back in business.
Prolman, 54, will still be on federal probation for the next two years as he begins taking clients again, but he has been fully cleared by a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to resume his practice where he left off when his suspension began in 2014.
“I can’t wait for that day to happen,” Prolman said during an interview in his office conference room, where the sign is now leaning against a wall. “I wasn’t sure I would get my license back. I had to think of alternatives.”
Prolman pleaded guilty in 2014 to laundering $177,500 in cash for a marijuana smuggler who is now in prison for drug offenses. Prolman served nine months in federal prison starting in 2015, and concluded his two-year sentence in stages – first in a halfway house and then in home confinement in Saco before his official release by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on May 9.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/06/19/after-federal-felony-conviction-maine-attorney-gets-a-second-chance/
It sounds like a sweetheart deal to me.
SACO — Gary Prolman knows exactly where he’ll be on July 1 at 12:01 a.m.
That’s the moment he’ll be reinstated as an attorney in Maine following his federal conviction on a felony money laundering charge. He plans to go outside his Saco law office and rehang the sign in front, an immediate announcement that he’s back in business.
Prolman, 54, will still be on federal probation for the next two years as he begins taking clients again, but he has been fully cleared by a justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court to resume his practice where he left off when his suspension began in 2014.
“I can’t wait for that day to happen,” Prolman said during an interview in his office conference room, where the sign is now leaning against a wall. “I wasn’t sure I would get my license back. I had to think of alternatives.”
Prolman pleaded guilty in 2014 to laundering $177,500 in cash for a marijuana smuggler who is now in prison for drug offenses. Prolman served nine months in federal prison starting in 2015, and concluded his two-year sentence in stages – first in a halfway house and then in home confinement in Saco before his official release by the Federal Bureau of Prisons on May 9.
Read more: www.pressherald.com/2016/06/19/after-federal-felony-conviction-maine-attorney-gets-a-second-chance/
It sounds like a sweetheart deal to me.