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NEW YORK---A New York attorney who pleaded guilty last May for engaging in a scheme with other attorneys to bribe hospital workers for medical records which revealed potential candidates for personal injury lawsuits has been disbarred.
Olga Sorkin pleaded guilty in New York Supreme Court to one count of offering a false instrument for filing in the first degree, a class E felony. She was sentenced to five years probation and ordered to pay $50,000 restitution.
The attorneys involved in the scheme split their earnings with the hospital workers from insurance claims they filed.
Sorkin had been charged with other attorneys in a multi-county indictment with restraint of trade and competition, enterprise corruption, two counts of first degree commercial bribery, three counts of third degree briery, six counts of first degree offering a false instrument for filing and fourth degree money laundering.
http://www.courts.state.ny.us/reporter/3dseries/2006/2006_00461.htm
1-31-06
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