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Former MoFo Office Manager Sentenced To Prison For Embezzlement

Sure hope that pinky ring was worth it.

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After pleading guilty to felony mail fraud for using a firm credit card to make $425,000 of unauthorized personal purchases, former Morrison & Foerster office operations manager Andrew Robertson has been sentenced. He’ll spend 41 months in prison and he was also ordered to forfeit $425,000 and to serve three years of supervised release after his release.

Robertson’s job at MoFo included having a purchasing card and he was able to approve certain orders, including office supplies, renovation matters, and catering. But Roberston used firm funds to buy things for himself. Robertson’s haul reportedly included Prada jeans, watches, a 60-inch television, more than a dozen pairs of Air Jordans, an Apple laptop, a sleeper sofa from Crate & Barrel, a 24-inch gold chain necklace, a 1980s-style prom king costume, and a white-gold pinky ring.

While employed at the firm, Roberston was already on parole for stealing $700,000 from another company. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kathryn Rakoczy said he used a falsified Social Security number and paperwork to obtain the job.

Robertson’s attorney, Davis Bos, said depression and childhood trauma factored into his crime. However, it was Robertson’s previous conviction that played a role in the sentencing hearing, as reported by ABA Journal:

At the sentencing hearing, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the prior conviction “doesn’t seem to have had any effect whatsoever on him.”

“My concern also is that he had an earlier sentence for similar conduct, spent 24 months [in prison] but didn’t skip a beat,” Kollar-Kotelly said.

“You can’t keep doing this,” Kollar-Kotelly told Robertson.

MoFo had the following statement on Robertson’s conviction:

“Morrison & Foerster terminated Mr. Robertson and alerted law enforcement immediately after we discovered theft of firm property,” the statement said. “Mr. Robertson’s actions did not impact any of the firm’s clients. We have been fully cooperating with law enforcement on this matter.”

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Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).

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