TALLAHASSEE (Florida Record) — Boca Raton attorney Jason Steven Dalley has been voluntarily and permanently disbarred following a June 28 Florida Supreme Court order and his conviction in felony mail and other fraud charges, according to a recent announcement by The Florida Bar.
"Dalley pleaded guilty in court to conspiracy to commit mail fraud, wire fraud and health care fraud," the state bar said in its July 31 announcement of the discipline and the Supreme Court's order. "He was sentenced to 21 months in prison."
In its two-page order, the high court granted the Dalley's uncontested petition for disciplinary revocation, tantamount to disbarment, without leave to seek readmission. Dalley was already suspended and his disbarment was effective immediately. The court also ordered Dalley to pay $1,350 in costs.
Florida court orders are not final until time to file a rehearing motion expires. Filing such a motion would not alter the effective date of Dalley's disbarment.
Dalley was admitted to the bar in Florida on Oct. 2, 1995, according to his profile at the state bar website.
Dalley was suspended in March following a Supreme Court order. In April, Dalley was sentenced in U.S. District Court for Florida's Southern District Court to a year and nine months in prison. Dalley reportedly owed more than $1.8 million in restitution. His sentencing followed his guilty plea in January to one count of conspiring to commit health care, mail and wire fraud.
Dalley was one of six personal injury attorneys arrested in September over an alleged an insurance fraud and patient brokering scheme between May 2015 and December 2016, according to a Broward County Sheriff's Department report and a Florida Attorney General's Office news release. The scheme brought in about $521,000 in kickbacks and those arrested were charged with organized fraud, criminal solicitation and patient brokering, according to the sheriff's department report.
Also arrested were Vincent Joseph Pravato of Fort Lauderdale, Steven Slootsky of Boca Raton, Mark Spatz of Davie, Adam Hurtig of Fort Lauderdale and Alexander Kapetan Jr. of Lighthouse Point.