District Court, D. Connecticut September 18, 1998, Civil Action 396CV891(JCH) (Vanacore v. Kennedy)

FINDINGS OF FACT AND CONCLUSIONS OF LAW

HALL, District Judge.

1. BACKGROUND

At the outset, the court notes what this case makes all too transparent: that the wreckage created by one lawyer’s unconscionable abuse of trust and pervasive dishonesty is not easily or finally cleared away.

On May 17, 1996, plaintiff Lee Vanacore filed this action against his former attorney, E.