Stettine v. County of Suffolk

The order of the Appellate Division should be reversed and the judgment of Special Term granting plaintiff summary judgment and declaring the agreement between defendant County and defendant Suffolk County Chapter of CSEA Local 852 void should be reinstated. The agreement is void because it was negotiated by defendant Farnetti, who ostensibly represented the County and its taxpayers, and at the same time had a prohibited interest in the outcome of the negotiations because increases in his own salary were linked to any increase in salary which he agreed the County would pay to employees…