Jackson was supposed to go on trial Monday. Butler County Prosecutor Mike Gmoser said the alleged money laundering was uncovered during the investigation of the case.
“The allegation is he was money laundering the funds he was receiving into his IOLTA account and his personal account, as a deceptive practice to avoid accounting for it in the arrangement he had with the Caparella law firm,” he said.
The money laundering charges are third degree felonies.
Jackson’s attorney Chris Pagan said he was aware of the new charges but couldn’t comment on them. He said the trial will be continued but no new date has been set.
Jackson’s former law partner Bradley Kraemer plead guilty in 2008 to stealing from his former law firm Lyons & Lyons. He stole $7,500. He was put on probation for three years and ordered to pay restitution. The Ohio Supreme Court suspended his law license for two years, one year was stayed and he was given a years’ credit for the time he voluntarily stopped practicing law. His license has been reinstated.
Kraemer did not wish to comment. Gmoser said the Jackson case is ironic.
“It is ironic, but these things do happen,” he said. Coincidentally it’s happened again. It’s unfortunate it happened with their law firm. It’s just the way it is in life, it’s not the first of its kind and it probably won’t be the last of its kind.”
The Supreme Court website has Jackson listed as a sole practitioner in Cincinnati.
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