A grieving widow lashed into a crooked attorney for swindling hundreds of thousands of dollars from the estate of her late husband as the disgraced lawyer was sentenced to 2 ¹/3 to 7 years in prison Monday.
“He preyed on the whole family in our most vulnerable moments,” said Elisa Weber of former family friend and lawyer John Todorovich.
“He exemplifies greed, narcissism, dishonesty and manipulation, all in the name of serving himself.”
Todorovich, 63, admitted to stealing $800,000 from three clients as part of a plea deal.
Weber’s late husband Bill, a doctor, had named Todorovich as the executor of his estate.
But when he died suddenly five years ago, Todorovich treated the estate as his personal piggy bank, paying for country club memberships and Mercedes car payments, prosecutors said.
Weber sobbed in Manhattan Supreme Court as she recounted the devastating deception and the theft of more than $368,000 from her family.
“He assured us time and time again, that he’d take care of us and promised that everything would be fine,” she said as her teen daughters watched from the gallery.
“Instead, he willingly stole what belonged to us, and took away our chance of living in peace after our personal tragedy.”
This wasn’t the first time Todorovich’s shady behavior made headlines.
He was busted in 2013 for allegedly trying to bribe cops who pulled him over in Brooklyn for driving his BMW with a suspended license.
“John Todorovich took an oath to act in his clients’ best interests, but he violated that oath by draining their accounts,” said Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr.
“Theft and fraud committed by attorneys erodes confidence in the entire legal profession.”