Ethics/Professional Responsibility
May 10, 2014
Jury awards $23 million for fraud, abuse of dependent adult
Contractor Noam Bouzaglou and his attorney, Andrew J. Stern, were found liable for manipulating mentally ill homeowner Timothy McGinty into deeding his home to raise some $800,000 for work that was never needed.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
A jury has ordered a contractor to pay $23 million in punitive damages to a family who sued him for fraud and abuse of a dependent adult. Defendant Noam Bouzaglou and his attorney, Andrew J. Stern, were found liable for manipulating mentally ill homeowner Timothy McGinty into deeding the property to raise some $800,000 for work that was never needed.
After McGinty's mother died in 2009, he be...
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