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Greenwich Real Estate Magnate Pleads Guilty to Bridgehampton DWI

Robert Futterman will be required to complete 1,000 hours of community service before sentencing, according to The Real Deal.

*Editor's note: This story originally appeared Feb. 6 on Southampton Patch.

Real estate broker Robert Futterman, the CEO of Manhattan-based firm Robert K. Futterman & Associates, pleaded guilty Feb. 3 to a felony driving while intoxicated charge and a misdemeanor count of driving while impaired by drugs following an August arrest in Bridgehampton, The Real Deal reports.

Futterman was driving while intoxicated with four passengers under the age of 16 in the vehicle, police said.

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said that Futterman, 52, of Greenwich, was pulled over for failing to maintain his lane on Sag Harbor Turnpike. Under Leandra's Law — a New York State law that increases the severity of a driving while intoxicated or impaired charge if there are kids in the vehicle — he was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child passenger less than 16 years old, a felony, as well as four counts of endangering the welfare of a child and a count of aggravated unlicensed operation of a motor vehicle, both misdemeanors.

Robert Clifford, a spokesman for Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota,  said Futterman will be sentenced after completing 1,000 hours of community service. He will also be subject to alcohol and narcotics counseling and regular testing.

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"His final sentence will be determined at the completion of the community service and the pre-sentencing report by the department of probation," Clifford said. "If at any time there are any violations of the law during his community service, or prior to sentencing, he will be sentenced to state prison."

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