The former Hattiesburg attorney, Cory Ferraez, is back in custody after Special Judge Forrest Johnson revoked his bond for failure to appear at a status conference. Ferraez turned himself into the Forrest County Sheriff’s Office on Dec. 17, 2025, according to the Forrest County jail docket. He was indicted by a grand jury in October of 2021 on five counts of embezzlement, conspiracy, fraud by mail/phone/newspaper/etc. and obtaining a signature of value with intent to defraud.
Ferraez was prohibited from practicing law by the Mississippi Bar in September of 2025 after the Bar found his conduct to demonstrate a pattern of misconduct such that he poses a threat of serious harm to the public. The Bar also accuses Ferraez of delaying the release of his trust fund information, which had been subpoenaed by the Bar. According to court documents, Ferraez informed his two banking institutions that he planned to file motions to quash the subpoenas, but no such motions were ever filed. Neither Ferraez nor any representative on his behalf was present at the hearing.
Ferraez was taken into custody in July after nearly a month on the run following a June order for incarceration. He failed to appear at a show cause hearing regarding a missing $450,000 from a wrongful death lawsuit. His failure to issue that settlement to his client resulted in the widow, whose only source of income was social security, being forced to borrow money against the settlement, to live without air conditioning and to almost lose her home according to Judge Sheila Smallwood.
Ferraez was also indicted in 2018 for swearing to a false application for absentee ballot and voting outside his legal domicile in a 2015 Lowndes County election. Ferraez’s twin brother and attorney at the time, Jace Ferraez, told media that his brother took a plea deal, a guilty plea to the second count in exchange for dropping the charge of the first, was taken so that he could focus on representing the people while running for Senate.
