Disbarred real estate attorney Mitch Kossoff gets 4+ years in prison
Former real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff was sentenced to more than four years in prison Friday for stealing nearly...
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Facing possible jail time, real estate lawyer Mitchell Kossoff gets disbarred
Disgraced real estate lawyer Mitchell Kossoff, who pleaded guilty in December to swindling millions of dollars from his clients,...
Mitch Kossoff charged with grand larceny
Mitchell Kossoff turned himself into authorities on Friday, an expected development after the prominent real estate attorney went AWOL earlier this year with millions of dollars in clients’ funds. Kossoff has been charged with...
Mitch Kossoff to plead guilty
Mitch Kossoff, the prominent New York real estate attorney who went AWOL earlier this year with millions of his clients’ dollars, will surrender to authorities and plead guilty to unspecified charges. A prosecutor in...
Feds investigating AWOL real estate attorney
Federal prosecutors are now investigating real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff, who went AWOL in April with millions of his...
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“Ripe for abuse”: Real estate escrow funds may not be so secure after all
Real estate lawyers routinely hold millions of dollars in escrow for their clients, serving as trusted third parties to...
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The curious case of the vanishing attorney
The spin class at the New York Sports Club near City Hall was a popular lunchtime workout for landlords and real estate attorneys. They would go for the intense instructor, Mitch Kossoff, a spinning...
Vanished attorney’s mother claims son forged her signature on loan docs
This has to be the worst Mother’s Day present ever. Real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff allegedly forged his 94-year-old...
Landlords try to push AWOL attorney Kossoff into bankruptcy
Real estate investors who say they’ve been scammed out of millions in escrow funds from attorney Mitchell Kossoff’s law...
Landlords seeking millions from real estate attorney who disappeared
Three more landlords have come forward with claims that real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff owes them hundreds of thousands...