AJ Contracting Co. v. City of New York (In Re AJ Contracting Co.)

DECISION AND ORDER ON MOTION TO DISMISS FOR LACK OF SUBJECT MATTER JURISDICTION

ROBERT E. GERBER, Bankruptcy Judge.

In this adversary proceeding under the umbrella of a case under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, the Creditors’ Committee of the debtor AJ Contracting Company, Inc., on behalf of the AJ Contracting Estate, seeks to recover, as a fraudulent conveyance and misappropriation of statutory trust funds, more than $3 million that was paid by AJ Contracting to the defendant Robert M. Morgenthau, the District Attorney for New York County of the State of New York, under a plea bargain…