Lawyer's Ex-Husband Guilty

TACOMA - The former husband of a prominent Pierce County deputy prosecutor has pleaded guilty to 10 felony charges in connection with the theft of nearly $600,000 from a Tacoma medical clinic.

Francis Corey-Boulet, the former husband of deputy prosecutor Barbara Corey-Boulet, will be sentenced Aug. 23 in King County Superior Court.

Defense lawyer William Michelman said his client pleaded guilty to the reduced number of theft charges because he used an "inappropriate means" to pursue a grievance he had with the doctors who founded the clinic, Pacific Sports Medicine Inc. Francis Corey-Boulet is a former manager of a company that provided administrative services to the clinic.

Barbara Corey-Boulet has said she was unaware of her former husband's alleged scheme, though she is named with him in a civil lawsuit - set for trial in September in Pierce County Superior Court - filed by the two doctors who founded the clinic.

The lawsuit alleges that Francis Corey-Boulet believed the clinic owed him money because he and his wife loaned it tens of thousands of dollars to keep it afloat.