About a week after former Dewey & LeBoeuf chief operating officer Dennis D’Alessandro’s lawyer spoke with The Am Law Daily about his client’s innocence in the alleged fraud scheme that helped destroy the firm, the trustee overseeing Dewey’s bankruptcy case has sued D’Alessandro in a bid to recover nearly $9.3 million for creditors.
Exhibits attached to the 24-page clawback complaint filed late Friday show that D’Alessandro earned that much as the firm’s COO from 2008 until his retirement on June 30, 2011. He averaged $200,000 in annual salary—paid in monthly increments of roughly $35,000—and another $400,000 in contractual and discretionary bonuses and trust payments during those years, according to the court filings.
