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VANACORE v. KENNEDY

Civil Action No. 396CV891(JCH).

86 F.Supp.2d 42 (1998)

Lee VANACORE, Plaintiff, v. E. Stanton KENNEDY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Connecticut.

September 18, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Riley, James A. Fulton, Whitman, Breed, Abbott & Morgan, Greenwich, CT, for Lee L. Vanacore.

Maria S. Spalding, Christopher Brigham, Mary Catherine Healy, Updike, Kelly & Spellacy, P.C., New Haven, CT, Christopher J. Devine, The Hartford, Southern Division Al/GL, Consultant, Hartford, CT, for Frederick F. Ehrsam, Jr., Ehrsam & Kennedy.

Nicholas E. Wocl, Brenden P. Leydon, Tooher & Wocl, Stamford, CT, for John D. Lium, Space Realty, Inc.

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HALL, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

At the outset, the court notes what this case makes all too transparent: that the wreckage created by one lawyer's unconscionable abuse of trust and pervasive dishonesty is not easily or finally cleared away.

On May 17, 1996, plaintiff Lee Vanacore filed this action against his former attorney, E. Stanton Kennedy, for theft and fraud in connection with Kennedy's...

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