Thursday, October 1, 2026
An Oceanside attorney who was charged with stealing $10,000 from a couple he was representing in the purchase of a new home pled guilty to that crime in Nassau County court on Nov. 13.
District attorney Kathleen Rice identified the attorney as Nathan Levner, 54, who was arrested in May by DA Investigators and charged with Grand Larceny in the Third Degree, a D felony. He pleaded guilty to the charge on Nov. 13, after reimbursing the Lawyers Fund for Client Protection of New York State in July for the full restitution that the Fund paid to his victims.
Levner, who was disbarred in December 2012, is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 15, 2014.
“Real estate attorneys are trusted with our finances and have access to very sensitive personal information, so it’s especially disturbing when one is found to be stealing from his clients,” DA Rice said. “My office is committed to rooting out white collar criminals who use their positions of trust and authority to swindle innocent people, and I encourage anyone who thinks they may have been the victim of a crime to contact my office immediately.”
Rice said that in July 2011, a couple hired Levner, an attorney, to represent them in the sale of their former residence and the purchase of a new home.
After the closing on the sale of the victims’ former home and prior to the closing of the purchase of their new home, however, Levner failed to return any of the victims’ phone calls. The victims vacated their former home on August 1, 2011, and were forced to hire a new attorney at the closing of the new home they were purchasing.
