Attorney Suspended for Falsifying Business Records as Part of Comp Scheme

A New York appellate court ordered a one-year suspension for an attorney convicted of falsifying business records for his payroll company’s client as part of a workers’ compensation fraud scheme. Case: Matter of Hamling, No. PM-108-22, 06/09/2022, published. Facts and procedural history: Jerry Ray Hamling was admitted to practice in New York in 2015, having previously been admitted in Michigan in 1985. Prosecutors filed a multicount indictment against him based on allegations of malfeasance related to his operation of Affinity Human Resources LLC, the payroll proc...