Mr. Benedict, a 35-year-old attorney who runs his own fledgling law practice, is facing charges of aggravated vehicular assault, leaving the scene of the accident, and driving while intoxicated for the 2011 Fourth of July accident in which he is accused of hitting a bicyclist while driving a 2011 GMC Acadia on the Montauk Highway.

Mr. Benedict did not immediately respond to emails requesting comment.

On July 4th of last year, Southampton lifeguard and teacher Steve Dorn was biking on the Montauk Highway near East Quogue at 8 in the morning when he was hit by a black 2011 GMC Acadia being driven by Mr. Benedict, according to local prosecutors and published reports.

Mr. Benedict then hit another car and drove for two miles before being stopped by two motorists who witnessed the accident and used their vehicles to block him, prosecutors said.

Mr. Dorn, 44, was admitted to Brookhaven Memorial Hospital in critical condition at the time of the accident. He would eventually be released from the hospital.

Mr. Benedict eventually pleaded not guilty to felony charges of aggravated vehicular assault and leaving the scene of an accident. He also pleaded not guilty to charges of DWI, a misdemeanor, and reckless driving, a traffic violation.

He was released on $75,000 bail.

Calls and an email to Robert Clifford, a spokesman for the Suffolk County District Attorney's Office, were not immediately returned.

Mr. Benedict faces the risk of losing his NY State Bar license if convicted, said Mark Heller, his attorney.

"A reasonable resolution to this case is not a felony disposition, but a misdemeanor disposition," Mr. Heller told The Observer. 

He went on to clarify Mr. Benedict's recent involvement with local charities, including co-hosting the First Annual Post-Walk Celebration to Benefit Breast Cancer Victims.

"In my 43 years of practice, I have never met a more appropriate individual I've been called on to represent than Tabber Benedict," said Mr. Heller. "He is very, very contrite about what happened, he is very remorseful, he's been been remarkably sensitive and compassionate about the individual [Mr. Dorn] who was impacted by this unfortunate occurrence."

Mr. Benedict was among the three "Gatsbabies" featured in Wednesday's New York Observer story, in which the three preening prepsters —noted for their flamboyant attire and their emerging presence in social media and the New York social scene—lured "ladies, lucre and the limelight" in Manhattan.

Mr. Benedict, along with globetrotting "retired entrepreneur" Edward Scott Brady and Pretentious Pocket founder and social gadfly Justin Ross Lee, had all come to evoke (be it intentional or not) the grandiosity and mystery of F. Scott Fitzgerald's titular character from "The Great Gatsby."

[Read Meet the Gatsbabies.]

For Mr. Benedict, who grew up the child of a single mom in Upstate New York and worked his way through a college scholarship and law school, his background seemed as self-made and sedulous as Jay Gatz himself. His foppish, bespoke attire and slicked-back hair gave him an air of a Jazz Age gentleman (while casual gawkers wrote him off as a Scott Disick lookalike). Of course, Jay Gatsby owed his fortune to a bootlegging business while concocting a biography that disguised his modest origins.

Mr. Benedict has been a staple on the charity circuit in recent months, often appearing in Patrick McMullan party pictures, smiling as his left hand remained firmly in his pocket (his left arm is gammy, the result of a car accident he was in as a child).

It is not clear if Mr.Benedict faces any prison time if convicted.

drosen@observer.com 

Robert K. Futterman, seen here with Vanessa Williams at the Young Audiences New York's 7th Annual Children's Arts Awards Gala at Cipriani Wall Street on March 10, 2008 (courtesy of Getty Images)

As part of his punishment, Mr. Futterman must complete 1000 hours of community service in Suffolk County with "conditions including alcohol and narcotics counseling and regular testing," said Robert Clifford, a spokesman for the district attorney, in an email earlier this afternoon.

"His final sentence will be determined at the completion of the community service and the pre-sentencing report by the department of probation, " said Mr. Clifford. "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."

He pled guilty in Suffolk County Criminal Courts Building in Riverhead, Long Island, last Friday.

The charges stem from an August 21, 2011 incident in which Mr. Futterman was pulled over by Southampton Town Police for failing to maintain his driving lane while driving southbound on the Sag Harbor Turnpike, according to published reports at the time.

There were four children in the car with Mr. Futterman in the car during the traffic stop. Mr. Futterman was reportedly on the sleeping aide Ambien at the time of the incident, reported The Real Deal, which broke the news of Mr. Futterman's guilty plea.

Among the charges he faced were several violations of The Child Passenger Protection Act, or Leandra's Law, which places tougher sanctions on adults who drive impaired while a child is in their car.

The law is named after Leandra Rosado, who died in 2009 after the woman who was driving her and six other girls crashed the station wagon they were in while intoxicated, killing Leandra.

First-time offenders can face up to four years in state prison.

Mr. Futterman is best known as the founder of Robert K. Futterman & Associates, a successful retail brokerage firm with headquarters in New York City and Los Angeles.

His guilty plea most likely will not lead to a revocation of his broker's license, The Real Deal reports.

Drosen@observer.com