Founder of ‘Students for Trump’ Gets Time Behind Bars for Posing as Lawyer, Scamming ‘Clients’

Lambert in 2019 was indicted and pleaded guilty to wire fraud and conspiracy in connection with a scheme in which he held himself out to be a high-powered attorney named Eric Pope from the fictitious New York-based law firm Pope and Dunn. He and alleged co-conspirator, Ryan Fournier, then sought and obtained freelance jobs, sometimes providing unqualified legal advice, other times just taking the money and leaving victims in the lurch. According to court documents, the scheme brought in at least $46,654 for Lambert between 2016 and 2018.

“Mr. Lambert took his money and did nothing,” Caproni said, per the Daily News. “Mr. Lambert did not even have the common decency to make up an excuse and tell the victim to hire another attorney.”