A former Richmond bankruptcy lawyer was sentenced to one year in prison Monday for bankruptcy fraud and for failing to pay the government her employees’ taxes, the Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. Nnika Evangeline White, founder of The Law Offices of White and Associates, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Henry E. Hudson. Federal sentencing guidelines, which are not binding on the judge, called for a prison term of 10 to 16 months. In pleading guilty in December, White admitted receiving roughly $50,000 in inheritance checks belonging to a bankruptcy client. After discussing it with her client, White used $31,000 of the money to pay herself legal fees. She did not disclose the inheritance checks — or that she was a creditor — in bankruptcy court filings.
