Counsel for the former town attorney for Oyster Bay, who is the target of a legal malpractice suit the town filed last week seeking to claw back his salary, said his client is being unfairly targeted for testifying against his ex-boss in a corruption case.
The lawyer for Leonard Genova, who testified in the criminal trial against former town supervisor John Venditto, also said that he would seek to add Venditto and other officials to the case as defendants in the suit, in which the town is seeking $840,000—which is equal to six years of Genova’s salary plus punitive damages—claiming that Genova cost the town millions in legal fees to fight claims arising from loan guarantees to a political donor who pleaded guilty to bribing Oyster Bay officials.
