One lawyer gets a great deal for another lawyer
Posted by whitecollarcrimenews on September 29, 2009
John Paragano, an attorney who is now living in Brick, originally was charged with aggravated assault on Dec. 4, 2007, against his wife, Diane Prior, who is a DJ at 103.5FM WKTU in New York City. This week, the Morris County Prosecutor’s Office agreed to amend the aggravated assault charge to a disorderly persons offense of simple assault. This deal was worked out by his attorney, Brian Neary.
While the assault complaint was pending, he was charged a few months ago with violating a domestic violence restraining order by harassing Prior by allegedly posting a video of her on a MySpace Web page which I blogged about before. Paragano denied this both in court and on my blog. He also agreed (in a separate proceeding) to abstain from making any comments about Prior on any social networking sites.
Luckily for Paragano, it seems like he could start putting all of this behind him.
Story is here.
John Paragano said
You also failed to mention that the myspace allegations were dismissed and a Notice of Tort Claim was filed against Morris County for False Arrest and, as an aside, the Complaint is being drafted. Again, half the story and useless information!