Albert Togut, founder of Togut, Segal & Segal, has been named interim trustee in the involuntary Chapter 7 bankruptcy of real estate attorney Mitchell Kossoff’s law firm, according to documents filed Wednesday in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York.

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Kossoff has been accused of stealing millions of dollars he was supposed to hold in escrow for clients, activity at the center of a series of state and federal lawsuits filed in recent weeks in Manhattan and the focus of an investigation by the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office.