Attorney Disbarred For Using Jailed Client's I.D. To Open Four Credit Cards; Lawyer Also Held POA Over Sale Of Home

In Gloucester, Massachusetts, the Gloucester Daily Times reports:

• Ennio Cataldo, 47, who lived in Gloucester and had a practice [...] in Peabody, had admitted in court last May to credit card fraud, identity fraud and felony larceny, according to notice from the state's Board of Bar Overseers. The charges stemmed from his use of a client's identity to open four credit cards. The client had given Cataldo power of attorney over several matters, including her divorce and the sale of her home, while she was serving a jail term.(1) [...] The Board of Bar Overseers — which works under the state's Supreme Judicial Court — formally issued its formal judgment of disbarment for Cataldo in a letter mailed Dec. 18.

For the story, see Lawyer disbarred over fraud, other misconduct (Gloucester resident who worked as a lawyer out of Peabody has been disbarred after a series of misdeeds — including committing identity fraud against a client while she was in jail, and taking money to file a trademark application and then never sending it in).

(1) Reportedly, Cataldo had used the credit cards to purchase tires for his car, pay for dry cleaning and buy tickets to see singer Andrea Bocelli, among other expenditures. I suppose the jailed woman should consider herself lucky that Cataldo didn't exercise the power of attorney to sell her home out from under her.