{"id":327486,"date":"2026-07-02T17:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327486\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:30:17","slug":"broward-deputies-arrest-disbarred-lawyer-accused-of-defrauding-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327486\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward deputies arrest disbarred lawyer accused of defrauding clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3IQIJFOHO5BSBHNZXTQJKLOVVU.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Corrections booked Todd J. Herman on Tuesday at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale and he appeared in court on Wednesday morning. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Todd J. Herman hadn\u2019t been eligible to practice law in Florida for about nine months when deputies arrested him in Broward County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Herman, 42, misappropriated more than $100,000 from 2022 to 2025, according to a Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office detective\u2019s request for an arrest warrant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Herman was admitted to the Florida Bar in 2010. He was a personal injury attorney based in Fort Lauderdale when a few of his clients accused him of withholding settlement funds in civil court in Miami-Dade and Broward counties, according to court records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Bar temporarily suspended Herman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202450062&amp;member=87252\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202450062&amp;member=87252\">on Oct. 6, 2023<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202450605&amp;member=87252\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202450605&amp;member=87252\">on July 29, 2024<\/a>, before disbarring him <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202350232&amp;member=87252\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridabar.org\/public\/acap\/disc-docs\/?icn=202350232&amp;member=87252\">on Sept. 25, 2025<\/a>, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge signed the warrant for Herman\u2019s arrest on Thursday. After deputies arrested him, corrections booked him on Tuesday at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Herman appeared in bond court on Wednesday morning. He faced charges of obtaining property by fraud, money laundering, financial structure violation, and the misapplication of an insurance premium. His bond was $200,000. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 5:49 PM Updated:\u00a0July 1, 2026 at 6:01 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandCorrections booked Todd J. 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