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Allstate Insurance Company
v.
Alex Buziashvili, and Moshe Fuld, Esq.
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York.
Mar 20, 2008.
Published opinion
49 A.D.3d 423
Cited by 2 opinions  |  Published

In support of their claim for violation of the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO), plaintiffs failed to set forth nonconclusory allegations that the attorney Fuld defendants participated in the “operation or management” of the allegedly corrupt enterprise (see Reves v Ernst & Young, 507 US 170, 179, 182-185 [1993]; cf. Jinaran Land Corp. v Shahbazi, 247 AD2d 263 [1998]). Because the substantive RICO claim was deficient, so was the conspiracy claim (Crab House of Douglaston, Inc. v Newsday, Inc., 418 F Supp 2d 193, 212 [2006]; see generally Small v Lorillard Tobacco Co., 94 NY2d 43, 57 [1999]). Furthermore, dismissal of the common-law fraud cause of action was proper, where plaintiffs failed to sufficiently allege false representations or omissions by the Fuld defendants (id.; see CELR 3016 [b]); plaintiffs no longer challenge the dismissal of their General Business Law § 349 claim; and in view of the foregoing, plaintiffs’ cause of action for injunctive relief as against the Fuld defendants must fail.

We have considered plaintiffs’ remaining arguments and find them unavailing. Concur—Lippman, P.J., Andrias, Nardelli, Buckley and Acosta, JJ.