Attorney Douglas J. Mathis allegedly used his Brunswick law firm as a “racketeering enterprise” to pilfer more than $100,000 from unsuspecting clients between 2009 and 2014, according to a indictment handed Wednesday by a Glynn County Grand Jury.
The indictment states that Mathis’ law office “had as its ostensible purpose to engage in the practice of law, but was instead utilized to embezzle funds by Douglas J. Mathis from his clients and to enrich himself through a pattern of racketeering activity,” the indictment said.
Brunswick police arrested Mathis Nov. 10 of 2015 following a lengthy investigation by Sgt. Roy Blackstock. He was disbarred in Georgia the previous month. In one instance, Mathis allegedly stole $135,000 that a client entrusted to him for payment on a St. Simons Island Condominium.
Wednesday’s affidavit states that Mathis “did engage in at least two acts of racketeering activity” between 2009 and 2014.
(source brunswick news)
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