A former chief legal officer of now-defunct law firm LeClairRyan was sentenced Monday to 44 months in prison and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine after pleading guilty in July to obstructing an embezzlement investigation into his own fraudulent conduct as a bankruptcy trustee, the Department of Justice announced.

Jaclyn Jaeger is a freelance contributor to Compliance Week after working for the company for 15 years. She writes on a wide variety of topics, including ethics and compliance, risk management, legal,...