Judge Convicts Manhattan Lawyer Soma Sengupta Of Lying About Age
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) - A Manhattan attorney was convicted Friday of forgery.
Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance, Jr. said a tower of deception built up by Soma Sengupta finally fell in upon itself.
A decade of forgeries and conspiracies took her from a job at a DA's office 13 years ago and to London, where she was hired as a barrister, and even donned the traditional white wig.
Judge Convicts Manhattan Lawyer Soma Sengupta Of Lying
Of all the forgeries of college and law school degrees and forged letters of reference from employers, it was a forged birth certificate that finally tripped her up.
She claimed to be 29, but she's a good 20 years older and somebody noticed.
Judge Thomas Farber in New York convicted her after a non jury trial saying he was struck by the sheer magnitude and intensity of her lies and schemes.
Sengupta faces seven years in prison and her boyfriend faces similar charges.
