La. police: Ex-attorney printed $1M in fake checks
Janet McconnaugheyAuthorities say a former public defender printed $1 million in bogus payroll checks so he could gamble at casinos from Florida to California, sometimes using Web site logos to make the checks appear legitimate.
Lt. Ed Baswell, a spokesman for the Bossier Parish Sheriff in Louisiana, says 47-year-old Charles Bradford was in jail Wednesday on $90,500 bond. Authorities say he printed the checks and recruited others to cash them.
Baswell says Bradford is wanted in Arkansas, California, Florida, Kansas and Ohio, and may have run the alleged scheme in other states. Bradford has a lengthy arrest record and was released from prison in 2006, though what he was convicted of was not immediately known.
Bradford was assigned a public defender, who could not immediately be reached.
(This version CORRECTS headlines to reflect that Bradford recruited others to cash them.)