Law Firm to Pay Ex-NFL Player Arbitration Award Over PPE Scheme

An attorney and his firm are on the hook to re-pay a former National Football League player alleging he was defrauded $2 million while trying to procure medical gloves for a business venture, a district court ruled.

Saadia Shapiro and his law firm Shapiro & Associates Attorneys at Law PPLC must pay Mark Barron an award decided upon in arbitration, according to a Monday opinion and order in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York. Judge Edgardo Ramos declined to vacate the arbitrator’s finding that Shapiro and his venture PAZ Global Ventures LLC breached a sale ...