Robert P. Pentangelo

I write this with sadness because he was not like this when I first met him., When I first met him and as time went on, I more than respected him. I really did. And, he won my case. As time went on I had given a large sum of money (COVID TIME) to get a Goverors pardon and he kept saying we should wai...t until election and someone who is more gun friendly. This made sense, so I agreed. As time went on,, the same Governor won. i decided to “make a move” rather than sit stagnant. I even suggested that we go for an expungement (even though it was premature). Well, I didn’t get my $7,500 back and he never did any work for me. He did agree to pay $500 weekly. I’m lucky if he’ll give $100…and that only if I pull teeth. He pai $2,300 to date and informed me that he only owed me $2,200… FOR WHAT?!? I even got the pardon application (early on, when we were going to go that route). I requested and paid several hundred dollars to get court transcripts. Is he charging $2,800 for putting the court transcript in the shelf. Every time I called and asked him if he looked at it, he hasn’t had the chance. Which, okay, this can happen. People get busy. But what am I paying $2,800 for? When I say I write this with sincere sadness, I mean that 100%. I liked Bob and I saw him like a friend. I never expected him to do this to me to this day. To this day, I have to call and practically beg him for $100. $100 of my money. I am hurt, sad, angry, all of the above. He claims he doesn’t have the money. That’s his business. I don’t know the background or the story or what not, so I’m not going to pretend to know . I can speculate, but the truth is, I don’t know. But that doesn’t change the fact that he owes me $5000. He won a case for me in my hometown and he charged me an extremely reasonable rate. He probably under charged me. I get that. So is this my punishment for being under charged for him representing me in the DWI case. Which, the DWI was because I was tired, driving while impaired, if you’re tired they consider that impaired. And he won the case. But I shouldn’t have to pay now for the fact that he charged such minimal amount. I really don’t know what to do and how to get my money back, if I can go to small claims court, will they take it. Any advice. Don’t say talk to him. Because he’s made it clear in a very arrogant way, that I am not getting my money. Please, I need help and advice

After paying him 3,000 to have him represent and expunge my records at alpine courts in New Jersey, he simply disappeared after one hearing. I assumed everything was taken care of until I was arrested in New Jersey after a routine traffic stop. Turns out the case was still open and never taken care o...f. After a weekend in jail, I contacted him to discuss what had happened. He apologized, then notified he would return me half the amount as consolation in addition he would expunge my records. He calls me a few hours later and notifies me he would be expunging my records, as it would cost him too much to do so( mind you he already took $3000 of my money for one hearing). After turning nasty and telling me " do you want your money or not?" I agreed to his terms. He informed me it would take up to 30 days for the check to arrive. It has now been over three months with no check. I tried on numerous occasions to contact him to no avail. No return calls, nothing after leaving him numerous voice mails. If I had the time and resources, I would try and get my money back, but knowing the cost and time it would take, I felt this is the only way to get his name out there. What a useless person and even worse an attorney.