Legal Opinion
Halsted Video, Inc. v. Guttillo
District Court, N.D. Illinois
Decided February 27, 1987No. 85 C 6890PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
MORAN, District Judge.
Plaintiff Joseph Mastro brought this derivative action on behalf of Halsted Video, Inc. (“Halsted Video”) against its four corporate officers and its accountant. Mastro alleges that the four corporate officers skimmed funds belonging to the corporation for their own use by falsifying financial documents and failing to report income, and that the accountant knowingly prepared the false documents. The complaint consists of state law counts of fraud, breach of fiduciary duties, misappropriation of corporate assets, negligence, conspiracy and conversion,…
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