Defendants Bradford General Contractors Co. Inc. and Hernandez cannot be held vicariously liable pursuant to the doctrine of respondeat superior for third-party defendant Pillco's criminal conduct because the record demonstrates as a matter of law that the undocumented immigrant's murder of plaintiff's decedent was not "within the permissible ambit of [his] employment" (see Riviello v Waldron,
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