AKRON, Ohio -- A former Solon attorney serving an 18-month prison sentence for swindling a Stark County couple is fighting new accusations that he took a $50,000 car from a Green car dealership and never paid them.

Bruce Brown, also known as Amir Tauwab, 55, is charged with grand theft in Summit County Common Pleas Court. He is representing himself in the case.

Brown, a disbarred attorney, has been convicted of more than 80 crimes, swindled clients out of thousands of dollars since 1991 and has drawn discipline from the Ohio Supreme Court three times.

Brown's current prison stint comes from his conviction for doing work as an attorney and for stealing $8,250 in fees taken from the Stark County couple without performing any work.

The new charges in Summit County case say that Brown negotiated a deal with Ron Marhoffer of Green for a 2013 Hyundai Equus valued at $52,089. The car dealership delivered the car to Brown's Cleveland office.

Brown, however, never paid for the car and the dealership reported the incident to Summit County Sheriff's deputies.

A trial is scheduled for March 16 in front of Summit County Judge Lynne Callahan. Brown has pleaded not guilty and disputed the claims in court filings. He is defending himself in the case.

"Simply put, (the employee) delivered the vehicle to a complete stranger without the benefit of payment," Brown wrote.

Brown is a Cleveland-born attorney that quickly rose to prominence after earning an undergraduate degree from Brown University and a law degree from Columbia University.

Ebony magazine named him one of its "30 leaders of the Future" in 1986 and he was featured in Money magazine. He earned a six-figure salary at a prestigious New York City law firm that later dissolved in scandal, according to Plain Dealer Publishing Co. archives.

Brown returned to Ohio where he started practicing law without a license. Brown was first convicted in 1991, and again in 1992, of several felonies in Cuyahoga and Lake counties for writing bad checks. He was disbarred in New York after the convictions.

From that point, he was convicted of 80 crimes against clients in Jackson Township, Kent, Ravenna, Shaker Heights, Gates Mills, North Randal, Highland Heights, Cleveland Heights, Solon and Cleveland.

In two cases in 1995 and 2003 he pleaded guilty to 65 charges involving swindling several clients and served six years in prison, records and archives say.

He was ordered by the Ohio Supreme Court to pay a $50,000 fine for taking money from five clients who believed he was an attorney.

The court opinion said that Brown "continues to engage in a pattern of deception and chicanery."

Brown pleaded guilty to aggravated theft in 2013, accused of swindling a Cleveland Heights resident out of $12,500.

Police and court records show Brown was the target of other investigations in the Cleveland area that have not yielded any charges.