Former attorney Justin Nadeau of Rye, has been sentenced in Rockingham County Superior Court following his conviction on April 1, by a Rockingham County Superior Court jury of one count of Theft by Deception, two counts of Financial Exploitation of a Disabled Adult, eleven counts of Falsification of Physical Evidence, and one count of Forgery.

Nadeau was sentenced to a total of 7.5 to 15 years in the New Hampshire State Prison. Nadeau’s sentences consisted of two concurrent sentences of 5 to 10 years in the New Hampshire State Prison on the Financial Exploitation charges, as well as a consecutive sentence of 2.5 to 5 years in the New Hampshire State Prison on five of the Falsification of Physical Evidence charges, according to a Attorney General John Formella.

Nadeau was also sentenced to a suspended sentence of 2.5 to 5 years on each of the remaining six Falsification of Physical Evidence charges and a suspended sentence of 3 to 6 years on the Forgery charge.

The evidence at trial established that between August 17 and August 22, 2018, Nadeau induced his now former client, who had recently suffered a traumatic brain injury, to loan him $275,000 under false pretenses. Nadeau subsequently induced this same client to provide him with a second loan on December 12, 2018, Formella said.

After the New Hampshire Attorney Discipline Office (“ADO”) began investigating Mr. Nadeau, he undertook efforts to conceal his misconduct from the ADO, including by fabricating documentation, producing false electronic file metadata, by destroying and/or concealing his computer, and by forging his then wife’s signature to a backdated promissory note.

Investigator Daniel Mederos investigated the case. Senior Assistant Attorney General Alexander J. Kellermann prosecuted this case, along with victim advocate Courtney Sirois.