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According to Kate Gosselin’s lawyer, Marty Singer, Jon Gosselin secretly withdrew $200,000 from Kate’s bank account without her knowledge. According to TMZ,  Singer, wrote a letter this past Friday accusing Jon Gosselin and his lawyer of fraud and contempt.

Jon Gosselin empties Kate's bank account of $200K

TMZ obtained a copy of the letter in which Singer expresses outrage that Jon secretly raided Jon and Kate’s money market account “of hundreds of thousands of dollars,” leaving only about $1,000. Singer says the withdrawal is not only “outrageous,” it directly violates the Arbitration Award in the divorce which requires both parties to agree before any money is withdrawn. Read the letter.

Kate blasts Jon on “Today” this morning, for clearing $230,000 out of the couple’s joint bank account: “You’ve left your children and their mother unable to pay for the roof over their head. It’s unacceptable.”

Singer says the withdrawal of funds is fraudulent and contemptible and claims both Jon and his lawyer, Mark Heller, are hypocrites, after they went on Larry King’s show and claimed family values (not money) was the important thing.

Singer says Heller has done this before, citing a New York Supreme Court decision which says Heller directed one of his clients in a divorce to “withdraw everything that’s in the bank” so the money could be used to pay his fee.

Singer also goes after Heller, stating the New York Supreme Court which “addressed charges that you violated ‘thirty-eight counts alleging multiple violations of the disciplinary rules,’ and charges that you ‘had engaged in a pattern of misconduct involving misrepresentations, deceit, abusive treatment of clients, fee gouging, neglect and willful failure to return unearned retainers to his clients’ in matters which involved your ‘mishandling of the matters of twelve separate clients.’” The letter goes on to claim Heller admitted to engaging in “professional misconduct involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit, or misrepresentation.”

Kate Gosselin has filed legal papers in a Pennsylvania court this morning to force her estranged hubby Jon Gosselin to return the $230,000 he took out of their joint bank account and to have him cited for contempt for good measure.

Kate claims Jon raided their joint account, leaving her with only $1,000.

Kate’s lawyer, Mark Momjian, tells TMZ he filed the papers this morning and noted to the judge that Jon allegedly violated an order prohibiting him from taking anything out of the account without Kate’s sign-off.

Momjian claims Jon and his lawyer, Mark Heller, have harassed Kate with frivolous legal maneuvers and wants the judge to nail her estranged hubby with financial sanctions.

Heller, who is not a member of the Pennsylvania bar, is asking the judge for special permission to rep Jon in this case. Momjian says he filed papers opposing that move, on grounds Heller effectively lied to the court by failing to mention as he’s required to do that he was suspended by the New York bar for a variety of misdeeds.

Read more: http://www.tmz.com/#ixzz0T57oTFU5

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