Max B lawyer is even suspended from practicing law atm and now he is a
yoga teacher. Cant believe he chose this guy to represent him

edit: smhhhhh
Newark Firm Hit With Whistleblower Suit By Fired Employee - Law360
Newark Firm Hit With Whistleblower Suit By Fired Employee
By
Martin Bricketto
Law360, New York (March 28, 2014, 8:08 PM ET) -- A former practice administrator with Newark, N.J.-based Roberts & Saluti LLC is attacking the firm for
allegedly pocketing clients' retainers without performing work and improperly firing him for cooperating with a state Department of Labor inquiry and threatening to report financial wrongdoing.
In a March 24 complaint in Bergen County, Gabriel Iannacone accuses managing members Gerald M. Saluti and Richard M. Roberts of misconduct and making his life miserable after his allegedly wrongful termination, such as falsely claiming that he is thief, convincing a client to say that he impersonated an attorney and interfering with his unemployment benefits. He even claims that someone from the office contacted his longtime girlfriend and lied that he was having an affair.
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The real reason that defendant law firm terminated plaintiff's employment was that he defied the partners' instructions to keep their illegal activities secret, and instead cooperated with authorities investigating the failure to pay
DOL taxes and with the authorities looking into Richard M. Roberts and
Gerald M. Saluti's financial irregularities (keeping money in the trust account that did not belong there in order to evade creditors),” the complaint said.
Roberts and Saluti could not immediately be reached for comment late Friday. A onetime associate of the firm who is also named as a defendant, Christopher Balioni, told Law360 that he was not aware of the suit and declined comment.
The firm's current status is unclear, with its Web address now linking to “The Law Office of Richard M. Roberts.”
Saluti was suspended for three months in January after the New Jersey Supreme Court agreed that he committed several ethics infractions while representing a defendant who faced charges that involved the online sale of pharmaceuticals, such as overstating the results he could achieve for that client and failing to cooperate with disciplinary authorities.
Iannacone in the suit paints himself as an integral part of Roberts & Saluti and predecessor firm Saluti Law Group LLC from April 2011 through August, when he was fired.
Saluti and Roberts were in constant need of cash to support their lifestyles, and Iannacone was responsible for producing 30 percent to 50 percent of all revenue, according to the complaint. Saluti Law Group is also named as a defendant.
Saluti and Roberts mishandled numerous cases and ran roughshod over ethical standards, Iannacone contends.
For example,
the firm handled a white collar case in which the defendant could only retain it using $161,000 that the state was holding from a real estate transaction, according to the complaint. Saluti had the office secure those funds and the firm pledged to keep the money in escrow, the complaint said. However, the firm instead gave the defendant $36,000 and kept the rest, according to the complaint.
In another case,
Saluti told an immigration defendant that he was free to leave the country, knowing that the defendant would be arrested if he did, the complaint said. Saluti wanted him to leave the country so the attorney wouldn't have to return the retainer, according to the complaint.
Meanwhile, Iannacone accuses Roberts of taking cash from clients without reporting it to the office and repeatedly accepting retainers without entering appearances or performing any legal services.
Roberts' alleged failure to handle cases and demands for cash often left the firm insolvent, according to the complaint.
The alleged DOL investigation arose after a fired attorney applied for unemployment benefits, the complaint said. The department demanded to know why that attorney wasn't paid on the books and subpoenaed Iannacone, who appeared before the agency over the objections of Roberts and Saluti, according to the complaint.
The
firm regularly did business off the books to avoid tax and other liabilities, Iannacone suggests. Roberts and
Saluti had staff bring them cash fees instead of depositing the money and paid certain employees in cash, the complaint said. Roberts also kept funds in his trust account that didn't belong there to avoid paying liens and judgments, according to the complaint.
When Iannacone tied to clear up the firm's finances, Roberts and Saluti thwarted those efforts and fired him when he threatened to report the matter to authorities, the complaint said.
Iannacone is represented by Elizabeth Foster.
Counsel information for the defendants was not immediately available on Friday.
The case is Iannacone v. Saluti et al., case number L-2802-14 in the Superior Court of New Jersey, Bergen County.
--Editing by Stephen Berg.
they hustled our nikka max n it cost him his life
