By CHRISTOPHER TUFFLEY
christopher.tuffley@newssun.com
LAKE PLACID-- John Sanders Haile, an attorney with an office at 220 Dal Hall Blvd., was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon on charges of grand theft over $100,000 and money laundering.
According to an affidavit released by Chip Thullberry, public information officer for the state attorney in Bartow, "Haile was the personal representative and Trustee for the late Nancy Lee Haberkamp, who passed away (in March of) 2008." Her estate was valued at $131,272.
The affidavit says Haberkamp had identified two beneficiaries in a living trust in 2006.
One beneficiary was to receive 96 percent of the estate, the other to receive four percent.
Haile is being accused of transferring trust funds, over the period of about a year, into his own personal bank accounts and using them for himself.
As of Thursday morning, Haile was being held at the county jail on $50,000 bond.
According to records, Haile has had two DUI arrests, one in February of 2012, the other in June of 2011. He also was accused of battery in 2001 and a violation of a domestic violence injunction in 2008.
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