Prosecutors said former Hunton & Williams and Willkie Farr & Gallagher partner Keila Ravelo defrauded her law firms and client MasterCard out of $7.8 million to fuel a lavish lifestyle.
A lawyer's alleged double life could screw up one of the biggest antitrust settlements in US history
This cant be life.
A lawyer from Englewood Cliffs admitted Monday that she created bogus businesses with her husband to steal $7.8 million from two high-powered law firms. Keila Ravelo, 52, took a deal offered by the government two weeks before her trial was supposed to begin, pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion.
Ravelo approved invoices submitted by her husband, and then both used the proceeds for personal expenses, Acting U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said.
Among the items federal prosecutors were seeking to have forfeited as the fruits of ill-gotten gains were the couple's $2.3 million home in Englewood Cliffs, a $1 million condo in Miami and other property -- as well as a 2009 Bentley Continental Flying Spur sedan valued at upwards of $80,000.
Be a black female biglaw partner in a field that is not known for adequate minority representation, inclusion or diversity and mess up your law degree, get disbarred, lose 2 million salary, partnership status for greed. No matter what your "status" is in life; bad decisions have legit consequences- no one is above the law.
Not only that-
In a separate case, Ravelo's husband, Melvin Feliz, is awaiting sentencing "after pleading guilty in February to plotting to transport more than 40 pounds of cocaine from California to New York," according to The Journal. And on Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion in the case in which he and Ravelo allegedly defrauded MasterCard and the law firms. He will serve that sentence consecutively to a 10-year sentence for a separate narcotics charge.
Ravelo said her professional success was a point of contention throughout her “troubled, abusive marriage” to Feliz, and she “worked hard to help Melvin succeed in his business endeavors so that he would no longer feel animosity” toward her.
A lawyer's alleged double life could screw up one of the biggest antitrust settlements in US history
This cant be life.A lawyer from Englewood Cliffs admitted Monday that she created bogus businesses with her husband to steal $7.8 million from two high-powered law firms. Keila Ravelo, 52, took a deal offered by the government two weeks before her trial was supposed to begin, pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion.
Ravelo approved invoices submitted by her husband, and then both used the proceeds for personal expenses, Acting U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said.
Among the items federal prosecutors were seeking to have forfeited as the fruits of ill-gotten gains were the couple's $2.3 million home in Englewood Cliffs, a $1 million condo in Miami and other property -- as well as a 2009 Bentley Continental Flying Spur sedan valued at upwards of $80,000.
Be a black female biglaw partner in a field that is not known for adequate minority representation, inclusion or diversity and mess up your law degree, get disbarred, lose 2 million salary, partnership status for greed. No matter what your "status" is in life; bad decisions have legit consequences- no one is above the law.
Not only that-
In a separate case, Ravelo's husband, Melvin Feliz, is awaiting sentencing "after pleading guilty in February to plotting to transport more than 40 pounds of cocaine from California to New York," according to The Journal. And on Tuesday, he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and tax evasion in the case in which he and Ravelo allegedly defrauded MasterCard and the law firms. He will serve that sentence consecutively to a 10-year sentence for a separate narcotics charge.
Ravelo said her professional success was a point of contention throughout her “troubled, abusive marriage” to Feliz, and she “worked hard to help Melvin succeed in his business endeavors so that he would no longer feel animosity” toward her.
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