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Fort Lauderdale Personal Injury Attorney
A former Fort Lauderdale attorney was arrested on grand theft charges Tuesday after detectives say he set aside his clients' settlement money for his own use.
William Hutchinson, 70, of Parkland, was booked into the Broward County Jail on $125,000 bond. But he can't post it until authorities confirm he's using his own money.
According to his arrest report, a review of bank records showed that he "has used a substantial portion of the settlement funds well in excess of $100,000 to pay personal and business expenses."
Investigators allege that Hutchinson settled a wrongful death case for $675,000 over several years. But the father of the victim hired a lawyer to complain to authorities in June 2015 that he hadn't received any money.
Investigators allege Hutchinson withdrew money to make payments to the parents of the victim, but took the money from a second settlement case to do it. In that case, Hutchinson had settled a personal injury case for a man with an insurance company.
