Lawsuit
Filed Against MGM Companies
Prominent attorney Mayer Morganroth
has filed a 69 million dollar lawsuit in Detroit
demanding a trial by jury against MGM GRAND
DETROIT, LLC, MGM GRAND RESORTS, LLC and MGM
MIRAGE, INC. Morganroth charges that agents
of MGM acted in premeditated conspiracy to cheat
L.S. Brinker/Brinker Team Construction Co and
two subsidiaries, City Carpet & Flooring,
Inc. and Universal Glass and Metals, Inc., all
of Michigan, out of millions of dollars.
Brinker
in joint venture with Perini Building Company
of Arizona was contracted to build the new multi-million
dollar MGM Grand Detroit Casino and hotel. The
casino currently operating must be updated by
a permanent casino and the new hotel to comply
with the operating arrangement between MGM and
the City of Detroit.
The
complaint says the key man for the Brinker/Perini
joint venture, David Agnello, in charge of planning
and execution of constructing the hotel, betrayed
Brinker.
"In
simple terms," Morganroth said, "Mr.
Agnello not only stole, converted and delivered
trade secrets, plans and details to MGM's Senior
Vice President of Construction, Benjamin Mammina,
he betrayed the trust he swore to uphold as
an employee."
"This
is the man who, in a position of trust, had
all confidential and proprietary trade secret
information belonging to the joint venture Brinker/Perini
including cost estimates, budgets, projected
profits, scheduling, subcontractors, construction
strategies and more. Agnello not only betrayed
Brinker, he failed to live up to fiduciary responsibilities,"
Morganroth charged.
Morganroth
said Agnello willfully colluded with MGM representatives
to steal the job from Brinker and did in fact
cut a deal where he would leave and establish
his own company, which he did earlier this year.
"After
Agnello set up his new company, Tre Builders,"
Morganroth said. "MGM, specifically Benjamin
Mammina, sent a notice to Larry Brinker saying
MGM was canceling the contract with Brinker/Perini."
Morganroth continued, "In sheer arrogance,
MGM then contracted with Agnello's Tre Builders
to construct the MGM Detroit properties thereby
unjustly cheating Brinker and subsidiaries out
of millions of dollars."
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