News for Norm Pattis

The husband of missing Connecticut mother Jennifer Dulos is talking publicly for the first time. Fotis Dulos spoke to reporters following a court hearing at which he asked for custody of the children. His lawyer, Norm Pattis, continued to claim Jennifer may have staged a "Gone Girl"-type disappearance, faking her own vanishing to frame her husband. Jennifer's family is calling the "Gone Girl" account "a classic act of desperation to slander the victim."

Norm Pattis, the attorney for Fotis Dulos, said Wednesday he is contemplating a new theory about the disappearance of Jennifer Dulos.

Jennifer and Fotis Dulos seemed to have it all.
After a lavish 2004 wedding in Manhattan, the Ivy League grads moved to the posh, wooded enclave of Farmington, Connecticut. Living in a 6-bedroom, 13,000 square foot house built by Fotis, a luxury home developer, the couple started a family, with two sets of twins and a baby girl.
“Everything looked stereotypically perfect,” says real estate broker Rob Giuffria of Tea Leaf Realty in Farmington, who befriended the couple...

An attorney for the estranged husband of a Connecticut mother who has been missing for more than a month doubled down on his theory that she may have disappeared in a "Gone Girl"-style escape from her life.
The family and friends of Jennifer Dulos, 50, dismissed the suggestion that she staged her disappearance in a manner similar to the plot of the popular novel-turned-film.
Monday marked one month since the mother of five was last seen in her 2017 Chevrolet Suburban in New Canaan....

Fotis Dulos, the estranged husband of missing New Canaan mother Jennifer Dulos, crossed state lines into New York on Monday.
Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, are each free on bail while charged with tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution in connection with Jennifer Dulos’ disappearance.
As a condition of his bail, Fotis Dulos must stay in Connecticut, and is wearing a GPS monitoring device.
His lawyer, Norm Pattis, said Tuesday his...

One month after a Connecticut mother of five vanished, her estranged husband is claiming she may have staged her own disappearance, like in the book and film “Gone Girl.” Her family is calling the claims heartbreaking and irresponsible.
Jennifer Dulos, 50, was last seen in Connecticut on May 24 dropping her children off at school. She had been in the midst of a contentious two-year divorce and custody battle at the time.
Her husband, Fotis Dulos, 51, and his girlfriend,...

As the search for a mother who went missing out of Connecticut hits the one-month mark, the lawyer defending her estranged husband suggested she might not want to be found.
Jennifer Dulos, 50, went missing May 24 after dropping her five children off at school. Since then, her estranged husband, 51-year-old Fotis Dulos, and his girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, 44, have pleaded not guilty to charges of tampering with evidence and hindering prosecution.
An arrest warrant for Fotis Dulos...

The controversial lawyer representing the estranged husband of Jennifer Dulos suggested that the missing mother of five may have orchestrated her own “Gone Girl”-esque disappearance.
Dulos, 50, disappeared on May 24 in New Canaan, an affluent area of Connecticut. Her estranged husband, Fotis Dulos, 51 and his 44-year-old girlfriend, Michelle Troconis, have since been charged with evidence tampering and hindering prosecution.
Fotis hired lawyer Norm Pattis to represent...

In 2005, Norm Pattis left the New Haven law firm he shared with his mentor, John Williams, and vowed he was giving up the law business to run a bookstore in Bethany.
Or so the story goes.
“Did I say that? I may have said that, I certainly wanted to spend more time in a bookstore,” Pattis said Thursday. “But I never stayed out of it (the law). The law is just too compelling, and I like to fight and it’s hard to fight in a bookstore.”
He still owns...

State and federal law enforcement authorities are investigating threats made against the Superior Court judge overseeing the civil case involving the families of Sandy Hook victims and controversial radio show host Alex Jones.
“In the interest of full disclosure to all parties, the court was contacted by the Connecticut State Police, who were reportedly contacted by the FBI regarding threats against the undersigned made by individuals on the defendant Infowars website,” Judge...