Home Surplus of Brooklyn, Inc. v. Home Surplus, Inc.

In an action, inter alia, to recover payments due under promissory notes, the nonparties, Boris Schvartsman, Igor Koval, Thomas Agrachov, and Oleg Agrachov, appeal from an amended order of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Kramer, J.), dated February 27, 2003, which, inter alia, found them to be in civil contempt and imposed a fine upon each of them in the amount of $20,000.

Ordered that the amended order is modified, on the law, by adding thereto a provision reciting that the conduct of Boris Schvartsman, Igor Koval, Thomas Agrachov, and Oleg Agrachov was calculated to, or actually did,…