A Dauphin County attorney has agreed to give up his law license following allegations he violated the attorneys’ rules of professional conduct through theft, fraud and deceit.
The schemes perpetrated by Anthony Cox Jr. escalated to the point where the state attorney general’s office began trying to collect payments he had pocketed from a client trying to pay civil fines, according to a complaint filed with the Office of Disciplinary Counsel.
And after months of sending bounced checks, Cox lied about his mother dying in emails to Chief Deputy Attorney General Melissa van Eck while asking for more time to pull the money together…