Suspended Attorney Arrested For Stealing $40K From Mortgage Escrow Account: DA

ISLIP, NY - A suspended attorney who practiced in Jericho was arrested on Monday for stealing over $40,000 from a mortgage escrow account, according to Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas.

Nancy Enoksen, 49, of Islip was arraigned before Judge Scott Siller and charged with third degree grand larceny.

Bail was set at $20,000 bond or $10,000 cash and she is due back in court Aug. 16. If convicted, Enoksen could face up to seven years in prison.

In 2015, a couple hired Enoksen to represent them in the sale of their home in Broad Channel, Queens. Their buyer gave a her cashier’s check for $40,000 payable to “Nancy Enoksen as Attorney” as a down payment on the house, the DA said.

However, a few months after that her law license was suspended due to an unrelated incident of professional misconduct, the DA said.

The couple then hired a new attorney but when they wanted to close on the home in 2016, Enoksen refused to release the down payment to the new attorney, the DA said.

A review of bank records showed that over the course of several months, Enoksen moved the money from her escrow account at a TD Bank in Hicksville and into her operating account, the DA said.

She is accused of using the money to make payments to several credit card companies and make purchases at Stop & Shop, CVS, restaurants and other retailers, according to the DA.

“Attorneys who betray their clients’ trust and victimize those whose interests they have an obligation to protect, disgrace their profession and when they steal, we will hold them criminally accountable,” Singas said.

Enoksen was arrested once before in 2015 for allegedly withdrawing over $185,000 in personal injury settlement funds awarded to her client. She pleaded not guilty a charge of second degree grand larceny.