Legal Opinion
Ayyash v. Bank Al-Madina
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided July 12, 2005No. 04 Civ. 9201(GEL)PublishedCited by 172 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION AND ORDER
LYNCH, District Judge.
In this civil RICO action, plaintiff Adnan Abou Ayyash seeks over $1 billion in damages against defendant Lebanese banks and a number of individual defendants, who, he claims, defrauded him and other depositors of the defendant banks in a complex scheme involving wire fraud, money laundering, forgery, and embezzlement. On June 9, 2005, plaintiff moved ex parte for an order permitting expedited discovery from various New York banks regarding, among other things, any assets defendants may have in New York, and for the attachment of such assets.
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