By Joe Swickard, Free Press
One of Michigan’s largest debt-collection lawyers could face more than 25 years behind bars and fines of $77,000 for filing allegedly fraudulent court documents and affidavits, a district judge ruled Thursday, drawing nodding approval from a portion of the courtroom gallery.
Judge David Bajorek rejected defense arguments in a pretrial hearing, saying that attorney Howard Alan Katz could be sentenced up to 30 days in jail and fined $250 for each of the 308 counts of criminal contempt if he is convicted.
Katz faces a jury trial Sept. 29 before Bajorek.
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