The real-estate developer charged with abandoning his dying friend after a Hamptons DWI crash has broken with his high-powered lawyer over legal strategy, The Post has learned.
Sources close to the case said Sean Ludwick clashed with Manhattan legal eagle Benjamin Brafman over the erratic entrepreneur’s bail hearing last week.
Ludwick’s $1 million bail was revoked after prosecutors said he plotted an escape to South America.
Brafman declined to comment to The Post on any friction with his for mer client, but said Ludwick needed a lawyer in Suffolk County.
“In view of the fact that Mr. Ludwick is now remanded in Riverhead, it makes much more sense for him to be represented by local counsel,” Brafman said.
Ludwick’s fate is now in the hands of well-known Long Island lawyer William Keahon and co-counsel Daniel Ollen, Ludwick’s first attorney in the case, the sources said.
Keahon is a former Suffolk County prosecutor known for handling “Hail Mary” cases, the sources said. Ollen repped Ludwick for the first few weeks before the suspect tapped Brafman.
Prosecutors charged Ludwick with aggravated vehicular homicide and other charges in the death of Sag Harbor real-estate agent Paul Hansen last summer. They say Ludwick slammed his 2013 Porsche into a utility pole in front of Hansen’s home in August. Hansen was a passenger.
Ludwick dragged him out of the car and onto the side of the road before pulling away in the mangled vehicle, officials said.