Legal Opinion
Credit Suisse Financial Corp. v. Reskakis
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Decided May 17, 2016No. 1155 651528/13PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Order, Supreme Court, New York County (Saliann Scarpulla, J.), entered May 29, 2015, which, to the extent appealed from as limited by the briefs, denied defendants Tonino Sacco and Elias Fillas’s motion to dismiss plaintiff’s complaint as against them, unanimously affirmed, with costs.
Sacco and Filias are named partners of a law firm, and their former associate, defendant Dean Reskakis, allegedly defrauded plaintiff, the firm’s client, during a mortgage closing, by failing to follow express and implied instructions, permitting the contract of sale to list a nonexistent lawyer, and disbursing…
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