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Attorney Embezzled Disabled Clients! ‘Community Lifestyle Newspaper’
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By Kimmy Markland Street Hype Crime Reporter
ttorney Martha Brosius, 50, of a Great Neck, Long Island, has been charged with embezzling funds from three of her former clients including stealing more than $150,000 belonging to the estate of an incapacitated seventy seven year-old man. The Elder Law attorney who practices in Great Neck and Manhattan, was arraigned before Judge Eric Bjorneby in First District Court of Nassau County on a criminal complaint charging her with three counts of second-degree grand larceny and faces up to fifteen years in prison if convicted. She was retained on $100,000 bond or $10,000 cash bail and returns to court on October 17, 2013. According to district attorney Richard A. Brown, Brosius in submitting a sworn accounting statement to the Court for monies spent from the disabled man’s accounts, allegedly stated among other things, that she gave the man $150,000 in cash between September 2009 and September 2011. However, after a forensic review of her accounts by the district attorney’s office, it was revealed that funds belonging to the disabled man were taken by Brosius from the escrow accounts she maintained on his behalf and deposited into her business and personal accounts. In a second incident, according to the criminal charges, two sons of a Westchester man hired Brosius to handle their father’s estate and to sell his resi-
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dence and set up a Special Needs or Supplemental Needs Trust for their disabled sister, who was the sole inheritor of their father’s estate. A check for $245,595.96 for the sale of the residence was deposited in an escrow account maintained by Brosius. Continued on page 4
MARTHA BROSIUS, 50
A Great Neck elder law attorney who has offices in Great Neck and Manhattan, was arraigned and charged on last Thursday (Sept 27) with stealing more than $150,000 from three clients in a four-year period.