Timothy Oliver, the Plymouth lawyer charged with fraud in a purported Libyan land deal, may be facing additional unspecified charges in the case, according to new court documents.
Oliver last month pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he bilked a Mexican construction company out of $500,000 with the promise of work on a land development project in Libya.
Since then, his defense attorney, Daniel Scott, has filed a series of documents seeking at first to withdraw from the case, then to stay involved in it.
"This is a complex white-collar case," Scott wrote in a motion to get out of the case. "There will probably be several superseding indictments adding new and different charges."
In that motion, Scott said Oliver could not meet the "terms and conditions" of a retainer agreement to hire him and his law firm, Kelley Wolter & Scott.
In a subsequent filing, Scott said, "This appears to be a classic federal white-collar fraud prosecution … requiring attorney and investigative commitment easily exceeding 1,000 hours."
That level of representation could mean out-of-pocket expenses to Scott's law firm easily exceeding several hundred thousand dollars.
Earlier this week, however, Scott dropped the request to withdraw, a move that suggests Oliver did meet his retainer requirements.
