Woman Says Lawyer Didn’t Disclose Offer
An Ohio woman who filed a $6.1-million wrongful-death lawsuit against three men accused of killing her son in an insurance scam said Monday her attorney did not tell her he offered to settle the suit for a defendant’s book and movie rights.
Los Angeles County prosecutors have charged a Glendale doctor, Richard P. Boggs, and Ohio businessmen Melvin E. Hanson and John B. Hawkins with murdering Ellis Greene. Police believe Greene was killed and his body identified as that of another man in what they allege was a million-dollar insurance scam.
Darlene Greene of Portsmouth, Ohio, who filed the wrongful-death suit April 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court, said she was unaware that her attorney, Glenn F. Beckett of Pasadena, apparently offered to settle the suit against Boggs for book and movie rights. Reached by telephone in Pasadena, Beckett would neither confirm nor deny reports that he offered to settle the suit.
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