Education Law
Targeted in N.Y. Public Benefits Probe, Private Lawyers Plan Class Action
Posted May 14, 2008, 01:34 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
Updated: It almost had to happen. Targeted in an ongoing investigated by the New York attorney general's office as well as other state and federal agencies over possible public benefits and tax fraud, at least some of the "hundreds and hundreds" of lawyers who reportedly are the focus of the probe are fighting back.
They plan to file a lawsuit tomorrow in state court, which they hope to pursue on a class-action basis, reports the Business Review. The article doesn't specify the expected defendants in the lawsuit, which is to be filed by James Roemer of Roemer Wallens & Mineaux in Albany, but they presumably will be government officials and entities. DeGraff, Foy and Kunz, another Albany… Continue reading...
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