Lawyer Michael Ingram, 69, of Leaside, has been disbarred by the Law society of Upper Canada. The governing body of lawyers in Toronto called Mr. Ingram’s conduct in taking $3 million of clients’ money, most of it bound for charity, egregious. The Law Society says it revoked the licence for professional misconduct after finding that Mr. Ingram misappropriated money from client trust funds, including taking $101,000 from a client and giving it to his own brother to buy real estate. That real estate purchase was also funded with $182,000 that Ingram took from a charity he helped oversee, the law society said. The discipline panel found that Ingram had been siphoning money from trust accounts and doling it out to other people, including his brother and his wife, then shifting money around between various other accounts to try to replace the funds. It began in October 2005 and ended in May 2008, amounting to $3.1 million in unauthorized transfers, the law society said in its decision late last month. The Canadian Press Previous post.
