Uniontown man charged with posing as an attorney
A Uniontown man is facing charges after police allege he bilked $4,000 from two Fayette County residents by pretending to be an attorney.
Kevin Barry O’Rourke, 57, of Uniontown was charged today with theft by deception after police say he posed as an attorney to a Point Marion woman and a Hopwood man and accepted $4,000 in payments for legal services he did not perform.
State police Trooper Thomas B. Broadwater said O’Rourke pretended to be an attorney and agreed to do some legal work in September 2011 for Janet Guthrie of Point Marion and Ryan Springer of Hopwood.
On Sept. 20, 2011, Guthrie and Springer paid O’Rourke $4,000 for legal services that he never performed.
Broadwater said police discovered that O’Rourke is not licensed to practice law.
He will face a preliminary hearing at later date before Magisterial District Judge Randy S. Abraham.