A disbarred Brooklyn lawyer helped his ex-con pal fleece her friends out of half a million dollars, prosecutors said Thursday. Gerald Douglas pretended to represent Helen Lurene Elias in a multimillion dollar lawsuit during meetings with five victims, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office said. The partners in crime convinced Elias’s friends to lend her $300,000 until her bogus legal .
“I’m gonna kill you and shoot you. I don’t give a fuck. I don’t care if I die,” said Michael Soto, according to the retired Corrections officer who pulled his weapon during the fight.
Edwin Tomas Guarcas, 22, is facing assault and reckless endangerment charges for the unprovoked attack at the Broadway Junction train station in Cypress Hills at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
The switch back to in-person first appearances from virtual after more than a year of arraignments on Microsoft Teams will come to Brooklyn on July 6 and to the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island on July 10, the Office of Court Administration confirmed to The News.