Manchester, New Hampshire – A former lawyer has been charged with mail fraud, bank fraud and money laundering.

According to the charges filed by prosecutors in the United States District Court Concord, Thomas J. Tessier, 71, was a practicing lawyer. He used fraudulent powers of the attorney and other untruthful means for the intention of stealing.

Tessier has stolen more than $200,000 from the client’s oldest son by selling a home that belonged to him, without his knowledge or consent; more than $295,000 from bank accounts that belonged to a deceased client whose estate he was appointed to administer; more than $240,000 from two investment accounts that belonged to the client’s oldest son and more than $198,000 from a life insurance policy the client had purchased for the benefit of the two sons.

Prosecutors also alleged that Tessier committed a bank fraud through fraudulent powers of attorney and other untruthful means to withdraw more than $1.4 million from bank account.

Tessier was also alleged for committing money laundering through depositing to his law firm’s client trust bank account with more than $176,000, which he stole from a bank account. He issued a $100,000 check from the client’s trust fund and deposited that check to one of his personal bank accounts.

The maximum prison sentence for mail fraud is twenty years, the maximum prison sentence for bank fraud is thirty years and the maximum prison sentence for the money laundering offense that is charged in this case is ten years.