Forrest County Prosecutor and former law partner of disgraced attorney Corey Ferraez had a few things to say on Facebook recently about the shyster on the lam.
This is our former law partner, Cory Ferraez. As many know, Cory was not only our law partner, but I used to believe he was my best friend. Since 2021, Cory has been under felony indictment for several counts of embezzlement or otherwise taking money he was not entitled to. There has been one delay after the next in his criminal prosecution. How the Mississippi Bar has sat ideally by and allowed him to continue to have a license to practice law I will never understand. This woman’s suffering (on top of the tragic loss of her husband) was entirely preventable.
(reply to comment) After I became county prosecutor his lawyers used that to get Forrest County DA’s office disqualified. Facts related to the counts of the indictment happened way before I ever came into that picture. David Myers was prosecutor when he was indicted. The substituting DAs office Dee Bates retired end of 2023 and the newly elected DA asked to be released since be was taking on a new large load as the DA for the 3 counties he was elected for… this was May 2024 or the last entry on the docket… still no substituted prosecutor… I stood up as a witness and victim at a motion hearing on it to explain I was no longer the prosecutor so there should be ZERO argument on a conflict especially since I wasn’t prosecutor when the facts related to the indictment occurred… and because we weren’t even represented by the State at the hearing. Still waiting…
Ferraez is currently a fugitive after a Perry County Chancellor ordered his arrest Friday. The Hattiesburg attorney failed to appear in court to explain what happened to a $450,000 settlement in a wrongful death case. Chancellor Sheilah Smallwood said he would remain in jail after arrest until he provided the entire settlement.
Forrest County grand juries indicted Farraez in 2021 for multiple counts of embezzlement, conspiracy, mail/wire fraud, and defrauding a court. The alleged victims included his clients and his former law firm. The case was assigned to a special Circuit Judge, Forrest Johnson, after all twelfth circuit judges recused themselves. What Miss Holmes is referring to is Ferraez's successful attempt to get the Forrest County District Attorney removed from the case.
The special prosecutor withdrew from the case over a year ago. "Judge" Johnson still has not appointed a prosecutor in the case.
Ferraez's license to practice law is still active.
26 comments:
How bad do things have to get before the Bar Association finally decides that "waiting for a conviction" before taking action does nothing to serve the interests of the other members of the profession or the public?
barn door to close after horse escapes-
I hereby appoint “anonymous” to run the Bar or any damn fool willing to take the job.
Sounds like the AG should prosecute, snafu
"How the Mississippi Bar has sat ideally by..." That would by idly by. He must have generously spread that $450,000 around to many palms. Afterall this is Mississippi.
everyone asking “why the bar…” meep in mind, like Carlos Moore, this guy is a protected minority.
As someone said in yesterday's post about this fine representative of the legal profession, Corey has pictures of the right people doing the wrong thing.
But, his personal website says "Named Top 40 Under 40 in 2018 by the Association of American Trial Lawyers," plus he is a "Member of Trinity Episcopal Church – Hattiesburg." https://callcoryms.com/about-cory-ferraez/
“sat ideally by”? Maybe idly by?
the biggest decision those guy at the MS state bar make every day is where to go to lunch.
Cory is a victim. A victim of the deep state and swamp that is Hattiesburg. The insiders know the real facts and in two weeks a report will be issued showing exactly how these frauds were perpetrated on Cory! Watch and see! It’s rigged!
i think hes hanging out at a canadian ice skating rink with johnny weir.
haha you would’ve nailed it if you’d signed off as Q anon!
"Chancellor Sheilah Smallwood said he would remain in jail after arrest until he provided the entire settlement. "
Ah yes...a modern day debtor's prison. Didn't several cities in Mississippi get sued by the Southern Poverty Law Center over judges doing this shenanigans?
Nope. Not a debt. It's alleged conversion of someone else's property
His newly formed law firm is Dewey, Cheatem, Ferraez, and Howe.
10:46 SPLC is a bunch of do nothing attorneys doing free work hoping for their big break. No one really takes that group seriously. Kind of like the poor peoples campaign. All talk, little action.
So...Is he a fugitive or not?
Is this just further proof of the two tier legal system? If someone walked into a bank, and robbed it of the same amount of money, that individual would be hounded to hell, and back.
A warrant was issued for his arrest Friday. He has not turned himself in and didn't show up in court. I reported him to be a fugitive.
Has the former law partner, DA, judge, or anyone else filed a bar complaint? Most of the Bar’s investigations commence when someone files a complaint with specific allegations. While Miss. Rule of Discipline 4 permits the Bar to initiate an investigation “upon receiving information from any source indicating that a lawyer may have committed misconduct,” it is more common for the bar to only initiate an investigation following an adjudication of guilt.
Last seen in the Seventh Ward in New Orleans looking for the last two escapees! He needs the reward money to help pay back his victims.
Now don’t repeat this I am joking!
Cory a victim?!?! You apparently do not know as much as you think you do.. Someone lied to you and you fell for it!
This man is a hero. It’s the deep state. Yall are all a part of it. In 2 weeks you’ll see
"Bar complaint" = round file.
You are correct it is common for the Bar to only initiate an investigation after an adjudication of guilt because they are taking the lazy way out which also allows the lawyer to possibly (and in this case definitely) do more harm. I pay a ridiculous annual fee to the Mississippi Bar every year for the privilege to practice law, and part of the Bar's responsibility is to go after attorneys like this. I resent the Bar sitting on its ass and doing nothing about situations like this where the attorney's conduct is indefensible. Now, because the Bar sat on its ass and has done nothing, more people have been duped. It is ridiculous.
Maybe he is in Georgia stumping for Carlos?
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