August 25, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge has shuttered a bottling startup's fraud and negligence claim against an attorney who advised on a transaction in which his client allegedly scammed the company out of $2.7 million, after finding no support for the assertion the lawyer had lied about the deal.
August 10, 2023
A bottling company accusing an attorney of helping clients steal $2.7 million by covering up a Ponzi scheme is now fighting to keep its fraud and negligent misrepresentation claims alive in North Carolina federal court, reiterating that the lawyer should have at least suspected his clients were crooks.
July 27, 2023
A Connecticut intellectual property and corporate law firm has asked a federal judge to hand it an early win in a $2.7 million loan fraud suit alleging it covered up a Ponzi scheme, on the same day the judge narrowed the suit by dismissing two of the four counts leveled against the firm.
July 25, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge on Tuesday trimmed a lawsuit over a Connecticut law firm's alleged liability for legal work it provided on a Ponzi-esque loan fraud scheme, finding that state law did not allow claims of "aiding and abetting" fraud and breach of fiduciary duty.
April 13, 2023
A North Carolina federal judge expressed some misgivings Thursday about the strength of a bottling startup's claims that a Connecticut lawyer helped his client orchestrate a bogus $55.3 million loan deal to steal the startup's deposit money, pointing to an apparent lack of evidence that the attorney knew about the alleged fraud.
January 10, 2023
A Connecticut-based attorney and his law firm must produce requested communications between himself and his client and an updated privilege log as it relates to a fraudulent loan scheme that cost a company a $2.7 million deposit, a federal judge has ruled.
October 04, 2022
The lawyer for a purported investment company says a bottling startup can't support its claims that he induced it to enter into a $55.3 million loan agreement with his client that allegedly cost it a $2.7 million deposit.
March 03, 2022
A bottling startup company has accused a purported investment management firm and its principals of stealing a $2.7 million deposit in a bogus $55.3 million loan deal and two advisers of failing to conduct due diligence on the deal in a lawsuit that comes about two years after it also sued its lawyers over the transaction.