{"id":50524,"date":"2021-11-24T09:52:39","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:52:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50524"},"modified":"2021-11-24T09:52:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T14:52:39","slug":"s-d-n-y-bankr-law-firm-in-bankruptcy-from-missing-trust-account-money-gets-a-hearing-on-return-of-items-seized-under-sw-of-the-local-da","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50524","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y. Bankr.: Law firm in bankruptcy from missing trust account money gets a hearing on return of items seized under SW of the local DA"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This is a civil contempt of bankruptcy court. The debtor is a law firm that declared bankruptcy because $8 million in trust account funds are missing. The DA executed a search warrant on the law firm records. The debtor wants a copy, but the DA isn\u2019t helping. It is noted that a hearing on that is scheduled for next month with the DA\u2019s office in attendance. In re Kossoff PLLC, 2021 Bankr. LEXIS 3219 (S.D.N.Y. Bankr. Nov. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There was reasonable suspicion for a stop but it never ripened into probable cause for a search of defendant\u2019s person and backpack. United States v. Nivongso, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 224733 (D.Nev. Nov. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dashcam and even an enlarged image wasn\u2019t conclusive on defendant\u2019s failure to signal, so the credibility question goes with the officer. United States v. Lighthall, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 224816 (N.D.Ill. Nov. 22, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a civil contempt of bankruptcy court. The debtor is a law firm that declared bankruptcy because $8 million in trust account funds are missing. The DA executed a search warrant on the law firm records. The debtor wants &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=50524\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-warrant-papers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50525,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50524\/revisions\/50525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}