Former Commonweath lawyer locked up for £650,000 fraud

A lawyer who fleeced the Commonwealth and a leading US law firm in a £650,000 fraud has been jailed for seven and a half years. Joshua Brien, 47, diverted just over £150,000 into his bank account while employed as a legal adviser at the headquarters of the Commonwealth Secreteriat in central London. The fraud came to light two years later when Brien became a special counsel at US law firm Cooley. Brien, an expert on the international law of the…