Maurice Taggart
A number of Maurice Taggart's legal clients are upset with him for taking their money and not performing the work he had agreed to perform as their attorney, according to public records and interviews.
Taggart, who turned in his resignation as head of the Pine Bluff Urban Renewal Agency in September 2021 to pursue a newly minted legal career, was charged last week with 46 counts of forgery, 38 counts of theft of property and one count of abuse of office in connection with the alleged theft of $667,384 from the agency. A high school classmate of Taggart's who now lives in Houston was also indicted in the case.
Taggart's problems with his clients, however, were starting to surface well before last week's much-anticipated announcement regarding the investigation by State Police into missing money at the Urban Renewal Agency, a sister entity to Go Forward Pine Bluff.
As of Tuesday, five people had filed small claims complaints against Taggart in Pine Bluff and Jefferson County district courts.
The short narratives written by the plaintiffs were all similar, with each person claiming they had paid Taggart to handle some type of legal work that was never done.
One was titled "Breach of Contract" and went on to say that "Mr. Taggart was paid in full and refuse (sic) to provide services or return monies."
Another said "Refusal to refund unearned attorney fees and costs."
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