A Brooklyn prosecutor improperly used his investigation into a man accused of stealing a Picasso from the Long Island mansion of a Sony executive to subpoena bank records in support of the victim’s unrelated lawsuit against a Manhattan art curator, court papers claim.
Prosecutor Lawrence Oh, who was featured on the “Brooklyn DA” reality-TV series, used his probe of house painter and alleged art thief Joselito Vega to compel the baring of bank records of art curator Lisa Jacobs, Vega’s defense attorney, Tim Parlatore, claims in his Brooklyn Supreme Court motion.
Oh then handed those records to ex-Sony honcho Michael Schulhof to use in his suit against Jacobs, according to the papers.
“ADA Lawrence Oh abused his law-enforcement powers by issuing grand jury subpoenas that bear no relevance whatsoever to the [theft] case . . . and had no legitimate law-enforcement purpose,” state the court papers, which seek to toss out the case against Vega.
Schulhof sued Jacobs in Manhattan in 2013, claiming she ripped off his mom for more than $1 million in the sale of a Jean-Michael Basquiat painting.
Oh referred questions to the DA’s press office, which declined to comment.