Dirty council president. Dirty law firm. How Porter Wright Morris Arthur screwed a client.
CLEVELAND, OH – Two Russian oil and gas investors in Naples, Florida sued the law firm that employs Cleveland Council President Kevin Kelly’s for malpractice in 2017. One of the council president’s Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur “partners” let Oleg and Andrey Tolkachev invest $5 million in a real estate deal without telling them the client they’d advised them to invest with had been hit with huge claims and settlements. Attorney W. Jeffrey Cecil is alleged to have fleeced the two Russians when he withheld the information. The Tolkachevs, according to their claim in the Middle District Court of Florida,…
