The New Hampshire Banking Department is telling nearly 100 customers owed money by shuttered Concord-based Dargon Law Firm LLC to reach out to a Massachusetts bankruptcy court.
Daniel Dargon, who now goes by Drake David Dargon, Sr., started the firm on North State Street in 2008, after graduating from Franklin Pierce Law School. In 2010, the NH Banking Department ordered the firm to pay $129,500 in fines and $147,197 in restitution for providing mortgage modification services without a license.
Dargon left the state that year and still has not paid his state fines or his former customers, according to a statement from the Banking Department issued Monday. He recently filed for bankruptcy, and consumers who are owed restitution should reach out to the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Massachusetts regarding case No. 20-30300 to register as creditors.
There were 99 New Hampshire clients who were awarded restitution, according to the Banking Department.
“With this alert, the Department is attempting to notify all interested parties of this action so they may assert their interests in the bankruptcy proceeding and finally receive the restitution they are owed,” New Hampshire Banking Department Commissioner Gerald Little said in a statement.
The New Hampshire Supreme Court’s professional conduct committee censured a former employee of Dargon Law, Peter Larkowich, in 2012 for representing himself as a lawyer when he didn’t have a license to practice law in New Hampshire and his Massachusetts license had lapsed in 2005.