Edgar Sargsyan, a private jet-flying career conman turned confidential informant who admitted in court testimony nearly two years ago that he paid a ringer to take the California bar exam for him, has been disbarred. But Henrik Mosesian Mosesi, the attorney Sargsyan testified was paid $20,000 a month to study for the test and was rewarded with a Rolex when he passed it, is still a licensed lawyer with a Glendale-based practice. Mosesi, according to court records and Sargsyan's testimony during the 2022 trial of Babak Broumand, a former FBI agent convicted of corruption and bribery, used a fake ID and smudged fingerprints at a Sacramento testing site in February 2015 to pass the grueling exam for Sargsyan.
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The real attorney, and the fake one, once ran the now-shuttered Beverly Hills-based Pillar Law Group on Rodeo Drive, where the walls were festooned with selfies of Sargsyan with prominent politicians, including former President Barack Obama and California Governor Gavin Newsom. According to Sargsyan’s testimony, the office was where he ran a labyrinthine identity theft scam, laundering some of his scheme's proceeds with political campaign donations - and paying Mosesi to study.
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