GUCCIONE v. U.S.

No. 85 Civ. 3333 (CBM).

670 F.Supp. 527 (1987)

Robert C. GUCCIONE, Plaintiff, v. UNITED STATES of America, Defendant.

United States District Court, S.D. New York.

September 10, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman Roy Grutman, Jewel Bjork, Thomas Marino, Grutman Miller Greenspoon & Hendler, Robert Gold, Elliot Silverman, Richard Ben-Veniste, Peter Isakoff, Gold & Wachtel, New York City, Ben-Veniste & Shernoff, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, U.S. Atty., S.D.N.Y. (David R. Lewis, Asst. U.S. Atty. of counsel), New York City, for defendant.


OPINION

MOTLEY, District Judge.

Plaintiff Robert C. Guccione has brought this lawsuit under the Federal Tort Claims Act, 28 U.S.C. § 1346(b), for injuries he allegedly sustained during the course of the FBI's highly publicized ABSCAM investigation of government corruption in the late 1970's. Guccione is a well known magazine publisher and entertainment entrepreneur. He claims that his attempts to obtain financing for a contemplated Atlantic City, New...

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