Legal Opinion
Superintendent of Insurance of New York v. Freedman
District Court, S.D. New York
Decided December 13, 1977No. 74 Civ. 5686(GLG)PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
GOETTEL, District Judge.
When Sir Walter Scott wrote “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive,” he must have foreseen the Knickerbocker Insurance Company. The transactions that caused the demise of Knickerbocker, and which form the basis of this action, were indeed a tangled and fraudulent web, and they have made uncovering the facts of the company’s downfall a most difficult task.
The New York Superintendent of Insurance brought this suit as the liquidator of Knickerbocker, alleging that the defendants conspired to and did defraud the company. Federal…
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