Disbarred Attorney Sentenced For Bilking $678K+ From Clients In Real Estate Deals

In New York City, the Staten Island Advance reports:

• A disbarred lawyer from Tottenville not only is disgraced, he's on his way to prison. Dennis Vourderis was sentenced [last week] to three and two-thirds to 11 years behind bars for bilking eight clients of more than $678,000 in real-estate transactions. [...] The sentence concludes the tawdry saga of an attorney with a decade-long history of scamming clients, at least one of whom has lost his home. Vourderis pocketed the victims checks and failed to make appropriate payments to lenders. Harrison Jacksons West Brighton home was foreclosed after Vourderis helped himself to Jacksons $190,000 home-refinance loan. Prosecutors charge he schemed to defraud at least 10 clients between December 2004 and May 2006. While Vourderis admitted to fleecing eight victims, prosecutors believe he ripped off about 25 people, all told, of nearly $2 million.

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