PRUDENTIAL-BACHE v. CITIBANK


73 N.Y.2d 263 (1989)

Prudential-Bache Securities, Inc., Appellant, v. Citibank, N. A., Respondent.

Court of Appeals of the State of New York.

Decided February 23, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William R. Mait for appellant.

Donald L. Cuneo, Henry Weisburg and Sharon Schroer for respondent.

Chief Judge WACHTLER and Judges SIMONS, ALEXANDER, TITONE, HANCOCK, JR., and BELLACOSA concur.


KAYE, J.

For more than two years, a massive fraud went undetected within Prudential-Bache, involving the issuance of firm checks that were regular on their face but improperly made payable to fictitious customers actually under the control of a Prudential-Bache employee. This case is an attempt by Prudential-Bache to recoup a portion of its losses from defendant, Citibank, one of the banks through which the employee...

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