Cooked Rice???

[Nassau Esq.]

MINEOLA - A former Garden City judge is expected to announce a lawsuit against Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice Monday.

Attorney Thomas Liotti plans to file a lawsuit against Rice with allegations of drug use and demands for policy changes. In the suit Liotti, calls Rice’s DWI crackdown arbitrary and unconstitutional. Liotti is filing the suit on behalf of a client, who is accused of drunk driving. He is calling for a new district attorney and changes to DWI policies.

Rice issued a statement and will hold a press conference to address the lawsuit

MINEOLA - A former Garden City judge is expected to announce a lawsuit against Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice Monday.

Attorney Thomas Liotti plans to file a lawsuit against Rice with allegations of drug use and demands for policy changes. In the suit Liotti, calls Rice’s DWI crackdown arbitrary and unconstitutional. Liotti is filing the suit on behalf of a client, who is accused of drunk driving. He is calling for a new district attorney and changes to DWI policies.

Rice issued a statement and will hold a press conference to address the lawsuit
All BS

MINEOLA - A former Garden City judge is expected to announce a lawsuit against Nassau District Attorney Kathleen Rice Monday.

Attorney Thomas Liotti plans to file a lawsuit against Rice with allegations of drug use and demands for policy changes. In the suit Liotti, calls Rice’s DWI crackdown arbitrary and unconstitutional. Liotti is filing the suit on behalf of a client, who is accused of drunk driving. He is calling for a new district attorney and changes to DWI policies.

Rice issued a statement and will hold a press conference to address the lawsuit
All BS

Liotti has a good track record of taking on, and taking down, the establishment. Rice should NOT take this lightly. Liotti is a shark.

What else did he bring up? The perjury stuff?

What's up with this? Was it resolved?


Democratic D.A. Candidate To Answer Questions About Suborning Perjury Claim

Andrew Harris (NY Law Journal)

09-27-2005


MINEOLA -- Kathleen M. Rice, the Nassau Democrat's choice to unseat incumbent District Attorney Denis Dillon, will be forced before Election Day to answer questions under oath stemming from allegations that she suborned perjury in 1997 while working as a Brooklyn assistant district attorney.

Ms. Rice, who recently joined Jaspan Schlesinger Hoffman in Garden City as a counsel after serving five years as an assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia, is a named defendant in Butts v. City of New York, No. 01 Civ 2945. The federal civil rights suit was filed four years ago by Antowine Butts of East Flatbush, who was accused and acquitted of murder charges after a 2000 trial.

The complaint alleges that Ms. Rice and others involved in the murder investigation three years earlier pressured a material witness to identify Mr. Butts as the gunman wanted in a double homicide after the witness had already told prosecutors that Mr. Butts was the wrong man.

While the district attorney's office decided whether to seek capital punishment, Mr. Butts spent two years in prison before he was tried, his attorney said.
"I am confident that I will be fully vindicated" as will the other defendants named in the suit, Ms. Rice said in an interview last week in her Mineola campaign headquarters.

Ms. Rice is scheduled to sit for an examination before trial on Oct. 7, said Garden City criminal defense attorney Bruce A. Barket, who represents Mr. Butts.

Mr. Barket was a prosecutor in Mr. Dillon's office before going into private practice, giving rise to the inference by Ms. Rice that the case is being pushed to derail her candidacy.

Ms. Rice said she found it "a little strange that for five years this case was going nowhere. Now we're being told the deposition has to take place on Oct. 7." The timing is "curious," she said.

Mr. Barket denies that politics played a role in the case and he derided as "silly" the notion that the case was dormant.

He also said that New York City had made a six-figure settlement offer to Mr. Butts last spring and that the offer had been rejected. Citing policy, a Corporation Counsel spokeswoman said she can neither confirm nor deny whether the offer was made.

According to Mr. Barket, the material witness was Martin Mitchell, who police had arrested on an unrelated gun charge days after the double homicide in a Brownsville bodega.

Questioned about the shooting, Mr. Mitchell allegedly told authorities that one of the gunmen had the street nickname "Black."

Mr. Butts, an aspiring rap artist, went by the street name "Bacardi Black," Mr. Barket said.

After his arrest, Mr. Butts appeared in a line up where investigators -- including Ms. Rice -- are alleged to have asked Mr. Mitchell to make a positive identification.

Mr. Mitchell reportedly recognized Mr. Butts, but said he was not the "Black" to whom he referred.

Ms. Rice is accused of then telling Mr. Mitchell that unless he wanted to face charges arising from his own shooting incident, he would have to identify Mr. Butts as one of the gunmen.

Ms. Rice said that because the matter is pending and in light of her imminent deposition, she could not give a point-by-point rebuttal of the facts as alleged by Mr. Barket.

Nonetheless, she said his rendition was inaccurate.

Assistant Corporation Counsel Hillary Frommer is defending Ms. Rice. Also citing the pending litigation, Ms. Frommer said she could not talk about the substance of the suit.

"However," she added, "we deny the allegations that Kathleen Rice suborned perjurious testimony."

A 2001 motion to dismiss the matter was substantially denied, with only Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes, who was also a named defendant, being afforded such relief.

The case is assigned to Eastern District Judge Nina Gershon in Brooklyn.

Liotti is a political plyer who likes the limelight.

This quote says it all:
"He also used to the forum to blast Rice in general, for a variety of issues unrelated to her drunk driving policies."

He's sucking up to the party to get a federal appointment.

As always, nothing new with the Nassau GOP.

[guest 14]

He's a dem

I do not know the guy other than seeing his name in Newsday alot. But, wasn't he involved in the removal of two sitting Judges (one was even disbarred).

[guest 14]

that's the guy

Liotti is one fine attoney, Rice will now have her hand full.

Too bad Kathie Lee Rice isnt as tough on crooked Nassau politicians as she is against drunk drivers.

Then Nassau would truly be a great place to work and raise a family.

Is this the Liotti who uses the disbarred lawyer to actually do the practice of law in his office and passes the disbarred lawyer off to the clients as a real lawyer

Is this the Liotti who uses the disbarred lawyer to actually do the practice of law in his office and passes the disbarred lawyer off to the clients as a real lawyer

Ahhhh...good to see the mud slinging and gutter ramblings are still alive and well on this board.....

Is this the Liotti who uses the disbarred lawyer to actually do the practice of law in his office and passes the disbarred lawyer off to the clients as a real lawyer

NO IT IS NOT

Someone should ask Rice what happened to the investigation of the Fire Marshall's Office. BIG allegations of bribe taking!! Heard they have many on tape as a fire marshall (former cop) allegedly turned them all in. Seems the county DA picks and chooses who she wants to go after. No arrests in the time scandal at NCPD HQ. but the black guy from BKLYN got arrested for time sheet abuses. Sounds like disparate treatment to me.

[thehornet]

Liotti is one fine attoney, Rice will now have her hand full.

expensive? Yes...fine?well, not really.....

Liotti is one fine attoney, Rice will now have her hand full.

expensive? Yes...fine?well, not really.....


I compare Liotti to Nassau cops. They cost a bundle to maintain and give us the bare minimum in return.

The only slugs lower than Liotti are the cops who talk crap here and don't have the ballz to id themselves.