Disbarred in Ohio, he tricked a California law firm into a $250,000 job offer. 7th law firm he faked out

Disbarred in Ohio, he tricked a California law firm into a $250,000 job offer, he tricked a California law firm into a $250,000 job offer

When he applied for a job at a California law firm last September, he identified himself as Christopher “Rich” Miller-Williams and claimed to be an ex-Marine who attended the University of Michigan School of Law.

He said he had played football at the University of Michigan, worked as in-house counsel at Bristol Myers Squibb, a biopharmaceutical company, and was licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C.

Impressed, the Irvine firm hired him as an attorney to the tune of $250,000 a year. The only problem? None of it was real.

The month after he was hired, federal agents arrested Miller-Williams under his real name: Richard Louis Crosby III.

This week, Crosby, of Mason, Ohio, pleaded guilty in Cincinnati to three counts of Social Security number fraud tied to false identities he used to obtain employment with at least seven law firms, including three in California, according to the U.S. attorney’s office for the Southern District of Ohio. The office did not provide the names of the hiring law firms.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-11/disbarred-in-ohio-he-tricked-a-california-law-firm-into-a-250-000-job-offer