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State Bar & Bar Associations

Apr. 14, 2009

Ex-Bar Employee Seeks to Cut Deal

The attorney for the former State Bar employee suspected of embezzling $675,000 from the agency said his client plans to cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of a lighter sentence.

By Amy Yarbrough
Daily Journal Staff Writer

SAN FRANCISCO - The attorney for the former State Bar employee suspected of embezzling $675,000 from the agency said his client plans to cooperate with prosecutors in hopes of a lighter sentence.

Sharon Pearl, 51, of Oakland, is due to be arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court Monday morning on one count of embezzlement and six counts of filing false tax returns. Her attorney Leon Mezzetti, of Fremon...

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