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MBJ Client Victory: Employer Receives Default Judgment as Sanction Against Former Manager
Morgan, Brown & Joy, LLP recently turned the tables on a former manager of a client company who is alleged to have taken company materials and tampered with the company’s computer system after finding out that the company was terminating his employment. In decisions issued on February 4, 2010 and December 10, 2009 in the case of Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation v. Peter Belli, et al., the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted separate motions for default judgment against both the former employee, Peter Belli, and his company, Regency Services, Inc., after finding that they had engaged in repeated discovery misconduct and unreasonably failed to pay discovery sanctions that had been awarded in favor of MBJ’s client, Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation. The Court also struck Belli and Regency’s counterclaims against Allied. The claims against Belli and Regency on which Allied obtained default judgment include fraud, conversion and violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act.
Diane Saunders and Amy Carlin represented Allied Home Mortgage Capital Corporation in the suit.
