OBJ Obtains +$500,000 Jury Verdict

As profiled in this report from the Gainesville Times, Orr Brown Johnson LLP recently obtained an overwhelming victory in the Superior Court of Hall County on behalf of their clients, Gastroenterology Associates of Gainesville, P.C., and Gainesville Endoscopy Center, LLC, against a woman who embezzled more than a half million dollars from the practices and her husband, who, according to the jury, converted and appropriated the local businesses’ funds with his wife.

The jury’s verdict was returned after a nearly week-long trial.  In addition to finding that Diane Ray and Jackie Ray were liable to the local businesses for over $512,000.00, the jury also found that, shortly before the lawsuit was filed, Diane Ray fraudulently transferred property to her husband and that her husband fraudulently transferred property to his son.  Therefore, as part of the judgment entered in the case, Judge C. Andrew Fuller declared those transfers null and void and set them aside as fraudulent transfers.  The Rays were represented in the case by former Georgia Attorney General Mike Bowers and former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan.