News for Norm Pattis

A judge has denied Gloria Farber's bid to attach the assets of Fotis Dulos as her $2.5 million lawsuit against him moved toward trial.
Attorney Richard Weinstein, representing Jennifer Dulos’ mother, argued during the proceedings Friday in Hartford civil court for Judge Cesar Noble to increase a $500,000 prejudgment remedy to $3 million.
Weinstein said Fore Group tax returns from 2007 to 2016 indicated Fotis Dulos’ company owed his client’s late husband, Hilliard...

For a second time, police this week arrested and charged Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, in connection with the May 24 disappearance of Dulos’ estranged wife, Jennifer Farber Dulos.
Dulos, 52, a luxury home builder, was taken into custody at his Farmington home about 2:30 p.m. Wednesday. Troconis, 44, turned herself in to state police at the Troop G barracks in Bridgeport.
Both are free after posting bail and are scheduled to appear in Superior Court in...

The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother was arrested again in connection with her disappearance, CBS affiliate WFSB reports. According to an arrest warrant, his girlfriend told police the body of the missing woman, Jennifer Dulos, was in a truck he borrowed the day she was last seen.
Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were previously charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution in connection with the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos. The...

The estranged husband of a missing Connecticut mother of five has been arrested again in connection with her disappearance.
State police arrested Fotis Dulos at his Farmington home Wednesday afternoon and charged him with tampering with physical evidence.
Jennifer Dulos, of New Canaan, disappeared May 24 amid contentious child custody proceedings with Fotis Dulos. She hasn’t been seen since.
Fotis Dulos and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, were previously charged with...

A legal clash erupted in court Wednesday when the attorney for Emanuel Dominguez-VillaGomez, accused of murder in the stabbing death of his wife, Monica Dominguez, in Cheshire, asked a judge to allow the defendant to have contact with his young daughter.
The attorney, Norman Pattis, who has been hired in place of the public defender who initially represented the defendant, told Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Clifford his client wants a no-contact order lifted so Dominguez-VillaGomez can...

An arrest warrant released late Wednesday outlines for the first time state police investigators’ theory of how Fotis Dulos might have killed his estranged wife Jennifer Farber Dulos, saying he ambushed her after she dropped their five children at school in New Canaan on May 24.
The 43-page arrest warrant affidavit details how state police investigators used a variety of video surveillance systems to chart how they believe Dulos traveled from his Farmington home to Farber...

Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Farber Dulos, was taken into custody Wednesday afternoon and charged for a second time with tampering with evidence, police said.
Western District Major Crimes Detectives arrested him about 2:30 p.m. at his house in Farmington, which is also the headquarters of his luxury home-building company.
In an arrest warrant released late Wednesday, investigators outlined for the first time their theory of how Dulos...

A prosecutor argued in a memo filed late Tuesday that the state’s case against Fotis Dulos could be compromised and become a “media sideshow,” unless a judge imposes a gag order on both attorneys.
State’s Attorney Richard Colangelo filed two memos this week at the Stamford courthouse, supporting his own motion for a judge to issue a gag order in the high-profile case of Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance, and a second memo opposing the defense’s request to...

A Connecticut man charged in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife is seeking a psychiatric evaluation of his mother-in-law, who now has custody of his five children.
The Hartford Courant reports an attorney for Fotis Dulos has filed a motion in family court on Friday calling for an evaluation of Gloria Farber because she’s been previously psychiatrically hospitalized.
Dulos has not been allowed contact with his children since being charged with hindering...

An attorney representing Fotis Dulos in his divorce and custody battle is seeking a mental health evaluation for Gloria Farber who has been caring for her grandchildren since their mother disappeared.
In a motion filed in Stamford family court Thursday, attorney Rich Rochlin contends that Farber, 85, has had mental health issues in the past and should be evaluated as she is seeking permanent custody of her daughter’s five children.
Rochlin also contends that Farber is paying...