Swiss Deportee to File Claims Against his Lawyers, Federal Marshal for Malpractice, ‘Entrapment’

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By Natalie Posgate

(April 26) – A Swiss businessman may soon be filing a malpractice lawsuit against the federal public defenders who represented him in a criminal bankruptcy fraud case, a recent letter to a federal appeals court indicates.

Rudolf Suter, a previous Dallas resident and the former CEO of Irving-based PFO Global, said he intended to file the suit in a letter he wrote to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He wrote the letter to inform the court he was withdrawing his appeal of his sentence entered in November by U.S. District Judge David Godbey. The judge sentenced Suter, who at the time had already been in U.S. Custody for 11 months, to time served. The judge also put him on supervised release and ordered Suter’s deportation back to Switzerland.