Charged in Murder-for-Hire Plot Against Wife, Man’s Claims Against Divorce Counsel Hit Dead End
Nine months after he was charged with soliciting his wife's murder, plaintiff Joseph Pascarella agreed to pay her $400,000 to settle their divorce -- but later went on to sue his divorce counsel, claiming Richard S. Goldberg and Goldberg, Cohn & Richter pressured him into a settlement against his interests. Now, a judge has concluded that, given the "fairly unique circumstances" involving Pascarella's then-pending felony indictment, his attorney's advice to settle was a "reasonable" course of action.
