Accounting Firm’s $1.4 Million Spat With Ex-Partner Won’t Expand

A lawsuit over a $1.4 million retirement payout to a former partner of a Connecticut accounting firm won’t expand to include the former partner’s counterclaims against the firm’s current leadership.

The firm’s current partners scored a court order dismissing defendant Michael Knight’s counterclaims, which accused them of financial malfeasance after his retirement. These counterclaims have “nothing to do” with the central facts of the case and are subject to dismissal for lack of jurisdiction, Judge Omar A. Williams said Tuesday for the US District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Knight was a longtime partner of Knight Rolleri Sheppard CPAs ...