Ordered that the order is reversed insofar as appealed from, on the law and in the exercise of discretion, with costs, and the defendant's motion is granted to the extent that the defendant is awarded an attorney's fee in the sum of $25,000.
"The decision to award [an] attorney's fee lies, in the first instance, in the discretion of the trial court and then in the Appellate Division whose discretionary authority is as broad as that of the trial court" (O'Brien...
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