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Brick NJ, Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal announced that a prominent Ocean County attorney who hosted a radio show and taught seminars on elder law was sentenced to prison today for stealing millions of dollars from elderly clients of his law firm and laundering the money through various bank accounts, including his attorney trust and business accounts. The victims generally did not have close relatives to guard their interests and in some cases suffered from dementia.
Robert Novy, 67, of Brick, N.J., was sentenced today to 10 years in state prison, including three years and four months of parole ineligibility, by Superior Court Judge Michael T. Collins in Ocean County. Novy pleaded guilty on July 27 to a charge of first-degree money laundering. In pleading guilty, Novy admitted that he stole millions of dollars from law clients. The state’s investigation revealed that he stole more than $3 million from at least two dozen victims.