Four former Dewey & LeBoeuf executives filed new motions late last week asking the New York State Supreme Court to throw out charges of grand larceny and fraud linked to the firm’s 2012 collapse, claiming that Manhattan prosecutors failed to produce evidence of criminal intent and incorrectly instructed a grand jury about accounting rules the men are accused of abusing, the American Law Journal reported today. Dewey’s former chairman Steven Davis, former executive director Stephen DiCarmine, former chief financial officer Joel Sanders and former client relations manager Zachary Warren filed their motions on Friday following the Manhattan District Attorney’s response to their previous motions to dismiss the indictment. Lawyers for Davis, DiCarmine and Sanders wrote that “despite somewhere between one and two million emails and apparently almost 4,000 pages of grand jury testimony, the prosecutors and the grand jury have no direct evidence of these defendants’ larcenous intent.”
