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Lawyer Crashes Boat Bound For Tropical Island While Trying To Escape Grand Larceny Charges

Those plans quickly sank pretty quickly.

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Imagine that you’ve been working on an estate matter for several years, but you’ve allegedly been siphoning off some of the estate funds for your own personal use, to the tune of about $850,000. Now, imagine that your client catches on to your alleged behavior and goes to the police.

What do you do now?

You try to sail away, sail away, sail away.

According to court filings, Tara Boyle Fallon, a 2003 graduate of Brooklyn Law School, turned over a misleading accounting of the estate and then evaded police for months after learning that an arrest warrant has been issued in her name for grand larceny. She and her husband allegedly “sold their Brooklyn home, changed their phone numbers, and adopted aliases.” They even bought a boat and tried to sail away to St. Croix to escape, but as it turns out, they didn’t really know how to operate a boat, so they couldn’t keep their plans afloat.

Here are some additional details from the New York Law Journal:

The couple were “not experienced sailors,” and their boat ran aground in New Jersey, according to the filings.

Fallon was arrested [in early February] in the Atlantic City area while trying to repair their boat and continue to flee, according to the filings.

The big house always wins in Atlantic City, but thanks to New York’s new bail laws, Fallon is now out on supervised release and is not allowed to travel outside New York and Connecticut. This really put an anchor on her tropical beach plans.

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NY Lawyer Arrested in Atlantic City, NJ, After Buying Boat, Sailing for St. Croix to Escape Grand Larceny Charges [New York Law Journal]

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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