CA - Mary Nolan, a family law attorney in San Ramon, California, pleaded guilty in federal court, to four counts of tax evasion and one count of unlawful interception of communications, announced United States Attorney Melinda Haag.
Nolan, 61, entered guilty pleas to all of the substantive counts in the indictment.... according to the plea agreement, Nolan caused her staff to illegally eavesdrop by accessing a listening device that private investigator Christopher Butler had installed in a vehicle used by “N.F” (a victim). Nolan agreed to resign her bar license and never to practice law again.
Butler, who pleaded guilty to unlawful interception and several other offenses on May 4, 2012, admitted having installed approximately seventy-five to one hundred unlawful listening devices at the request of clients or their attorneys, including the listening device in “N.F.’s” vehicle in August 2007. Butler was sentenced to 60 months’ imprisonment on this charge, to be served concurrently with the 96-month sentence on his other counts of conviction. (more)
