LAWYER, DISBARRED FOR STEALING $300K, STEALS NEARLY $300K FROM NEW JOB

The Daily Record


Gregory P. Luhn, 52, a former tax attorney who was disbarred for stealing $307,000 from his former law firm, got out of jail, and who managed to land a new job with a travel agency, has again embezzled from his employer—this time stealing $267,000 before he got caught.

Luhn admitted to preparing taxes for Custom Travel Incentives and Promotions and instructed Custom's owner to make the checks for the tax obligations payable to Lund, The Daily Record reports.

Luhn, a former corporate and tax law attorney, endorsed the checks and used the money for his own purposes, the newspaper reported.

In 2002 Luhn pleaded guilty to stealing $307,000 from his former Morristown-based law firm, then known as Smith, Luhn & Doran. His partners learned he was stealing around April 1997 and offered to support him if he underwent therapy for gambling but they fired him from the firm when his embezzlement continued.

But the story gets even more outrageous: The latest theft charge is actually the THIRD time that the defrocked former attorney has stolen from an employer. Explains The Daily Record:

“While under investigation for the law firm embezzling, he got a job with a Newark-based health maintenance organization from which he stole $200,000 between June 2000 and July 2001.”

Precisely why, given Luhn’s checkered history with other people’s money, his current employer agreed to make nearly $300,000 in checks earmarked for tax payments out to Luhn personally is not known.

According to The Daily Record article, Luhn is facing a five year prison term.

While Luhn is no Bernie Madoff, we wonder if serving another three years of a five year sentence is going to make much of an impression on this former attorney? Not likely.
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Related: In ‘Sad But Predictable’ Case, Ex-Lawyer Steals $267K from New Employer (ABA J.)