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ROBERT MORGAN SCHILD is an attorney registered with New York State, Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration, admitted in 1975. The current status is Currently registered. The business address is 1 S Washington St Ste 240, Rochester, NY 14614-1134.
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (WROC) — Real estate developer Robert Morgan was fined $2,000 Friday, following a conviction of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. He had pleaded guilty to the charges. Morgan also agreed to pay $16.7 million as part of his plea agreement. Morgan’s son, Todd, was fined $500. Both were also sentenced to time served.
The U.S. Attorney’s office says a 104-count indictment has been filed, charging Robert Morgan, Todd Morgan, Frank Giacobbe, and Michael Tremiti with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with a wide-ranging mortgage fraud scheme.
In 2021, a new set of criminal charges were filed against Rochester developer Bob Morgan. The 104-count indictment accuses Morgan and his son Todd — along with Frank Giacobbe and Michael Tremiti — of mortgage fraud, insurance fraud, and conspiracy. They were arraigned on those charges Thursday.
Last December, Morgan’s lawyer—Donald Ottaunick, a Cole Schotz member in the firm’s Hackensack, N.J., office—petitioned the court to be let out of the case. According to a request Ottaunick filed with the court, “despite multiple requests for payment, Morgan failed to satisfy his payment obligations to Cole Schatz with a substantial accounts receivable due.” His request was granted.
In 2015, Robert Morgan and a former business partner sued Richard Brovitz, a well-known lawyer who had long served as Morgan’s general counsel, accusing him of legal malpractice. After pursuing the case for four years, Morgan abandoned the lawsuit in March after his attorney bowed out, pleading that Morgan owes his firm a substantial amount ...
Filed in state Supreme Court in Saratoga County four years ago by Morgan and Moser, the action claims Brovitz failed to adequately guide the partners through workout deals on $128.2 million in defaulted loans that Morgan and Moser had arranged to refinance for an eight-state portfolio of 17 recreational vehicle parks. The partners contend that Brovitz’s alleged failure to properly advise them unnecessarily put Morgan and Moser personally on the hook to pay $8.65 million of their own money to close out defaulted loans for which they thought they had no personal liability. Legal fees factored in resulted in a damage claim “in excess of ten million dollars.”
To make matters worse, Morgan and Moser assert, LNR, “emboldened by its stranglehold on (Morgan’s and Moser’s) $5 million (and) disinclined to negotiate further,” insisted on payment of an additional $3.65 million to secure the release of LNR’s recourse claims against the partners, bringing Morgan’s and Moser’s out of pocket costs to $8.65 million.
According to Brovitz, Morgan’s and Moser’s breaches of the loan covenant, in addition to comingling funds, included keeping cash the foreclosed properties generated during the six-month extension period that they were supposed to turn over to LNR.
An SEC civil suit, which claimed that Morgan’s efforts to keep his cash-strapped empire afloat included pulling investors into an alleged Ponzi scheme, followed a day after the indictment was unsealed.
Terms of the initial, $128.2 million package of loans did not call for Morgan and Moser to personally guarantee them and the partners resisted putting $5 million of their own money on the line, “a fact they made abundantly clear” to Brovitz, the court complaint claims.
ROBERT MORGAN SCHILD is an attorney registered with New York State, Unified Court System, Office of Court Administration, admitted in 1975. The current status is Currently registered. The business address is 1 S Washington St Ste 240, Rochester, NY 14614-1134.
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Attorneys for Robert Morgan, Joel M. Cohen and Lee Dunst, released this statement on Thursday: “As he has since May 2019, Mr. Morgan will continue to vigorously defend himself, and remains confident that ...
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The U.S. Attorney’s office says a 104-count indictment has been filed, charging Robert Morgan, Todd Morgan, Frank Giacobbe, and Michael Tremiti with conspiracy to commit wire fraud and bank fraud in connection with a wide-ranging mortgage fraud scheme.