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CEDAR CITY, Utah (AP) -- A Utah lawyer suspected of failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars from a settlement to relatives of victims of a plane crash is out of jail.
Matthew Terry Graff, 38, who practices law in Cedar City, made bail and has been released from the Iron County jail.
Graff has been charged with two second-degree felony counts of unlawful dealing of property. His attorney, Gregory Skordas, is preparing for a July 23 preliminary hearing.
Graff was representing two men whose wives died in a plane crash last August near Moab that killed eight other people. Court documents accuse him of depositing settlement funds in his private bank account, then spending or moving the money elsewhere.
Graff was arrested last week at Salt Lake City's airport by U.S. marshals.
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Information from: The Spectrum
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