Suspended Milwaukee lawyer faces FBI investigation into alleged international fraud scheme
The FBI is investigating a suspected international fraud scheme said to involve a suspended Milwaukee lawyer, $16.2 million from China, an English bank, a man who claims to be an English solicitor and ... John Hancock's signature.
At the center of the probe is veteran Milwaukee lawyer Michael Krill, whose law license was suspended by the state Supreme Court on Wednesday. The court employed a rarely used rule that allows emergency temporary suspensions before the Office of Lawyer Regulation files a formal complaint.
"Krill's repeated acts of dishonesty, delay and contempt for the judicial process" makes his "continued practice of law ... a threat to the public and the administration of justice," Karl Wyler, an OLR investigator, wrote in a June affidavit urging the immediate suspension.
The FBI and the Racine County Sheriff's Office are also investigating the 59-year-old attorney. The Racine investigation centers around $300,000 belonging to ex-clients that Krill received but has not turned over despite a court order that he do so. Since May, Krill has been fined $500 a day for contempt for failing to turn the money over to the clients' new lawyers, court records show.
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