An Eastern District magistrate judge has held that the law firm of Borrelli & Associates did not withhold documents from a former client and rejected the client’s demand for a criminal investigation. In Corrado v. New York State Unified Court System, 12-cv-01748, Nicole Corrado, an attorney with the Appellate Division, First Department, disciplinary committee, had accused Borrelli of destroying records related to a pending sexual harassment claim involving officials at the court agency.
Borrelli had previously represented Corrado and, when their relationship ended, provided her with an e-version of her file, which was created per firm policy before non-original paper documents were destroyed as a matter of routine, records indicate. One of those documents was a copy of a file that had been compiled by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The original was lost in a flood last summer at the EEOC’s office in lower Manhattan.
