Village Mortgage Co. v. Veneziano

The defendant, James Veneziano, appeals from the judgment of the trial court rendered in favor of the plaintiff, Village Mortgage Company (company), after a trial to the court, awarding the plaintiff $2,080,185.09 in damages for the defendant's misappropriation of corporate funds through conversion, statutory theft, and embezzlement. On appeal, the defendant claims that (1) the court's factual findings regarding statutory theft were clearly erroneous, (2) the court's discovery rulings on October 27, 2014, December 9, 2014, and January 16, 2015, "constitute reversible error," and (3) the court…