GALASSO, LANGIONE & BOTTER, LLP v. GALASSO

2010-09500.

89 A.D.3d 897 (2011)

933 N.Y.S.2d 73

2011 NY Slip Op 8326

GALASSO, LANGIONE & BOTTER, LLP, Formerly Known as GALASSO, LANGIONE, LLP, Respondent, v. ANTHONY P. GALASSO et al., Defendants. THOMAS F. LIOTTI, Nonparty Appellant. (Action No. 1.) SIGNATURE BANK, Plaintiff, v. GALASSO, LANGIONE & BOTTER et al., Defendants. (Action No. 2.) GALASSO, LANGIONE & BOTTER, LLP, Respondent, et al., Plaintiffs, v. SIGNATURE BANK et al., Defendants. THOMAS F. LIOTTI, Nonparty Appellant. (Action No. 3.) WENDY BARON et al., Plaintiffs, v. ANTHONY GALASSO et al., Defendants, and GALASSO, LANGIONE & BOTTER, LLP, Respondent. THOMAS F. LIOTTI, Nonparty Appellant. (Action No. 4.)

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of New York, Second Department.

Decided November 15, 2011.


Ordered that the order is affirmed, with costs.

Peter Galasso, a partner in the law firm Galasso, Langione & Botter, LLP (hereinafter GLB), represented Stephen Baron in his divorce. Baron designated GLB as his escrow agent in June 2004, and instructed it to hold almost $5 million in an escrow account. Peter's brother, Anthony P. Galasso (hereinafter Anthony), was GLB's bookkeeper. In January 2007 Anthony confessed that he had stolen approximately $4.4 million...

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