Attorneys for New York City are seeking sanctions against a lawyer they say made a “morbid misrepresentation” that his mother had died to secure an adjournment, as well as from the co-counsel who reported the alleged lie to the court.
“Given the egregiousness of the lie,” the city’s Law Department said in its motion, it was “difficult to fathom any other conclusion than that” John Nonnenmacher acted in bad faith and deserves a $5,000 sanction.
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