WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- The U.S. Department of Justice's U.S. Attorney's office for XXXXXX (insert district) issued the following press release:
Seattle - A 54-year-old former attorney was sentenced yesterday in U.S. District Court in Seattle to two years in prison for wire fraud for his theft of more than $1.5 million from an estate he was hired to probate, announced Acting U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd. Duncan Connelly voluntarily surrendered his law license as part of his plea agreement on March 5, 2026. At the sentencing hearing U.S. District Judge Jamal N. Whitehead said, "We talk about these financial crimes as if they're just money,.. but as one of the victim's wrote, 'this was the money of someone I loved'. (The victims) had trust...