A disbarred Dutchess County attorney who embezzled more than $450,000 from incapacitated individuals has been sentenced to 4 to 12 years in state prison. County Court Justice Edward McLoughlin also ordered John Ferdinand Murphy III on May 27 to repay his victims.
A Dutchess County Court grand jury has indicted a disbarred Hopewell Junction attorney for allegedly embezzling more than $450,000 from elderly and vulnerable clients he had represented as their guardian and trustee.