A North Carolina judge sentenced 41-year-old Charlinette Detmers to four years’ probation and ordered her to pay $30,000 in restitution.
Wealth Advisor’s recent article, “Lover stole nearly $1M from her late husband’s estate on Lake Norman,” explains that court records identify the victim of her embezzlement as her son, Tols Detmers, who was 19 years old when he sued his mom and her lover, a disbarred attorney.
Tols Detmers accused the two of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars that his late father left for him. Fritz Detmers, Tols’ father, lived in Denver, N.C. and died at age 78 in 2009.
The disbarred attorney is serving a 16-year sentence at state correctional institution for embezzling from the estate, prison records show. The prison is in Polkton, about 45 miles southeast of Charlotte.
A Lincoln County grand jury indicted him on 11 counts of embezzlement. In June 2017, he pleaded guilty in Lincoln County Criminal Superior Court to five felony counts of embezzling $100,000 or more.
According to an affidavit, the disbarred attorney admitted using the money for personal benefit. In addition, court filings in a related civil case show that he spent about $9,200 on an engagement ring for a former secretary at the law firm whom he married. He also gave $15,520 to his wife’s now-defunct boutique shop in Denver.
The attorney also spent $5,000 for a family vacation at Sea Pines Resort, a luxury beach resort in Hilton Head, South Carolina, and thousands of dollars more on his personal phone and other bills.
Reference: Wealth Advisor (February 26, 2018) “Lover stole nearly $1M from her late husband’s estate on Lake Norman”
Kyle Robbins
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Offices of Kyle Robbins. He received his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law and his B.S. in Food Chemistry and Microbiology from Oklahoma State University.
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