Arlington County (Va.) Board member Christian Dorsey, whose ethical and financial difficulties have tangled him in a web of false statements over the past year, fraudulently misrepresented his assets while filing for bankruptcy, a federal court ruled Friday, the Washington Post reported. Dorsey had listed a second mortgage payment as one of his obligations, which would have reduced the amount he had to pay toward his other debts. But a trustee charged with overseeing his case said in court on Thursday that the mortgage debt had been forgiven, and Dorsey had made no payments on it since October 2019, when he filed for bankruptcy. It was “an act of overt misrepresentation,” Thomas P. Gorman told the court at a hearing on Thursday, and “misconduct . . . so over the line” that punishment was warranted. Judge Brian F. Kenney sided with Gorman, calling Dorsey’s filings “a misrepresentation that requires that the case be dismissed with prejudice.” In an order published Thursday, he dismissed the bankruptcy under a code section reserved for cases involving fraud.
