The Firm prevailed today on a motion to dismiss one of the more unusual complaints it has seen. The plaintiff, appearing pro se, made a series of rather bizarre allegations against Governor Andrew Cuomo, several large financial institutions including Bank of America, Citigroup and JP Morgan Chase, and our client, Western Union Financial Services, Inc., including that one or more of them had spied on celebrities including Oprah Winfrey and George Clooney and plotted to kill plaintiff’s grandmother in the West Indies, to dissuade plaintiff from challenging Cuomo for the governorship. The Supreme Court of the State of New York (New York County) quite properly granted our motion to dismiss plaintiff’s fictional claims against Western Union. Given their unusual character, plaintiff’s claims had garnered mention in the local press media (see article here).
