A Lakewood attorney has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing $1.4 million from his 89-year-old step-grandmother.
Glenn William Gregory, 56, was sentenced Wednesday in Jefferson County, according to the district attorney’s office.
He’ll serve the four-year sentence consecutive with an eight-year sentence from a conviction last year for stealing $1.3 from the same victim. In the two cases, Gregory stole money from two trust funds benefiting the octogenarian.
He was sentenced in August 2017 in the prior case for stealing from the Martha Violet Villano Trust Fund.
Gregory also was trustee of the John B. Villano Trust, created by his grandfather, John B. Villano, to provide for Martha Violet Villano — the wife of John Villano, and Gregory’s stepgrandmother. She died last year. As trustee, Gregory had power of attorney for Villano between 2008 and 2016. During that span, Gregory transferred more than $1.4 million from the JBV Trust accounts to his personal bank accounts and his law firm’s bank accounts, prosecutors said.
Gregory stole a total of $2.7 million between the two cases.
Gregory gave gifts — money — from the JBV Trust to several family members. Prosecutors said he used the stolen money on internet and phone sex services, vacations and gambling.
On July 23, Gregory pleaded guilty to one count of theft of an at-risk person, over $500.
