Charges: Failing Kirkland lawyer bilked clients to keep himself, ex-wife living rich

Editor's note: This Shark believes Boddy would fit well into the Probate Court of Cook County where clients are regularly bilked.  Lucius Verenus, Schoolmaster, ProbateSharks.com

 

Charges: Failing Kirkland lawyer bilked clients to keep himself, ex-wife living rich

Attorney left clients ‘financially destitute,' 'hounded’ while trying to keep $40k-a-month life

BY LEVI PULKKINEN, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF

Published 10:52 pm, Wednesday, June 11, 2014

 

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A Kirkland attorney caught stealing from more than a dozen clients offered a novel excuse, according to police.
Accused of leaving his clients without money to pay their debts and medical expenses, personal injury attorney Brian Kirk Boddy told police his problem was his ex-wife’s expensive tastes.
Boddy, a 50-year-old Redmond resident, said he and his soon-to-be ex “had become accustomed to a lavish lifestyle that generated living expenses of $40K per month,” a Kirkland detective said in charging papers.
King County prosecutors claim Boddy settled the clients’ claims – sometimes without their consent – and deposited the money in accounts he could raid. Renting space at a reputable law office in Kirkland, Boddy specialized in car crash and slip-and-fall civil lawsuits against insurance companies.