CENTRAL ISLIP, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) - A legal office allegedly kept $235,000 from CardConnect, LLC (CCN) after the plaintiff accidentally deposited the funds in the defendant’s account.
CCN sued the Law Office of Francisco J. Rodriguez and Rodriguez himself in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York’s Central Islip Division on March 24.
CCN alleges that the defendants erred when they green-lighted a settlement payment into CCN’s account. “Because numerous factors indicated these transactions were not legitimate, CCN rejected the transactions,” the lawsuit claims. One of those factors was that a payment card in the transaction wasn’t actually charged.
After the slip-up, CCN refused the transaction into one of Rodriguez’s accounts.
“Defendants knew these funding errors occurred and that they had received funds to which they were not entitled,” the lawsuit alleged.
Even allegedly knowing that the money wasn’t theirs, the defendants refused to return it, CCN claimed.
CCN is suing for breach of contract, breach of duty of good faith and fair dealing, conversion, unjust enrichment, and quantum merit.