Legal Opinion
Simmons v. Lennon
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided June 6, 2001No. 2905, Sept. Term, 1999PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SALMON, Judge.
Beginning sometime in 1995 and continuing into early 1998, a secretary and a bookkeeper conspired with one another to defraud their employer, Luiz R.S. Simmons, Esq., of funds he kept in his escrow accounts and in his general office accounts. As a consequence of their scheme, Simmons’s signature was forged on numerous checks, and large sums of money were withdrawn from his accounts without his knowledge.
One of the checks forged by Simmons’s secretary was in the amount of $13,000 and was made payable to Michael Lennon (“Lennon”), who sold a vehicle to the secretary and received…
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