A disbarred New Jersey lawyer has pleaded guilty in federal court to involvement in a scheme to falsify complaints in more than 100 asbestos suits by adding his clients as defendants.

Arobert Tonogbanua, while a partner at the Haddonfield office of Dickie McCamey & Chilcote, obtained copies of legitimate asbestos complaints filed in New York State courts and altered them by deleting named defendants and inserting the names of his firm’s clients.

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