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A Milwaukee attorney who was held in contempt last year for failing to return client moneyis faced with the revocation of his licenseover allegations that he was running a fraudulent investment scheme.
An Office of Lawyer Regulation complaint filed on Dec. 14 alleges that Michael Krill of Michael M Krill Law Office violated the state’s attorney-ethics rules 20 times.
The violations include failing to hold client money in trust, distributing client money held in trust without the client’s permission and without providing documentation of how that money was spent, lying to the OLR, helping a client defraud a third party by preparing forged and fraudulent documents and disobeying a court order.
Nine of the charges in the complaint stem from Krill’s representation of a Racine woman and her business, AMSAH. She hired him in 2014, and he laster represented her in a case involving a building in Racine that was destroyed in a fire.
The OLR alleges that Krill deposited into his trust account $75,000 related to the client’s case and withdrew the money from the account without the client’s consent. He did the same thing when the Racine court ordered a $226,412.41 settlement be deposited into Krill’s trust account. Within...