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Gregory P. Luhn is expected to accept a plea deal at an Aug. 5 court hearing in Hackensack.
Luhn, 52, was disbarred in 2002 after admitting he took $307,000 from his firm, Smith, Luhn & Doran in Morristown, and $200,000 from University Health Plan of Newark, where he worked as a financial consultant.
Investigators from the Bergen County Prosecutor’s Office said they learned that Luhn, while a tax preparer for Custom Travel Incentives and Promotions in Haskell, failed to pay more than $200,000 in taxes on behalf of a client — and took the money instead.
The prosecutor said Luhn instructed Custom’s owner to make the checks for the tax obligations payable to Gregory P. Luhn, or Gregory P. Luhn, Esquire, between September 2006 and April 2009.
He then cashed the checks and used the money for himself, they said.
Luhn ‘s partners were willing to assist him in getting help for a compulsive gambling problem as far back as 1997, records show. But five years later, he pleaded guilty to stealing $307,000 from his former Morristown-based law firm, then known as Smith, Luhn & Doran.
He lost his job, was suspended from practicing law in March 1998 and agreed in early 2002 to disbarment. He served less than four months in prison before being released on early early parole under New Jersey’s Intensive Supervision Program.
However, prosecutors said they learned that Luhn had been with a Newark-based health maintenance organization from which he stole $200,000 between June 2000 and July 2001.
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