Disbarred Lawyer Pleads Guilty After Faking Info to Land Firm Jobs

Disbarred Cincinnati lawyer and one time Democratic congressional candidate Richard Crosby has pleaded guilty to three counts of social security number fraud, admitting that he used aliases and phony credentials to obtain employment at multiple law firms across the US.

Crosby’s change-of-plea hearing was originally scheduled for June 25 but was pushed to August after he claimed to have been heavily medicated during a hospital visit earlier that same day.

Crosby was taken into custody a week later, however, after prosecutors told the the US District Court for the Southern District of Ohio that his hospital story was a lie. …