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October 11, 2007

Lawyer imposter pleads to grand larceny

If you’re going to bill a company high legal rates, you’d better actually be a lawyer. That’s the lesson learned by Brian T. Valery. As an attorney for New York city-based Anderson, Kill & Olick, Valery billed Norwalk-based Purdue Pharma for thousands of dollars of legal services. But Valery wasn’t a lawyer. He fabricated his entire legal background. Valery was sentenced to five years probation if he pays back at least $150,000 of the $200,000 lawyer’s salary his firm paid him.

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