Albert G. Fraccola, Jr. v. Hon. Scott J. Delconte; Hon. Stephen K. Lindley; Hon. Mark A. Montour; Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden; Hon. Donald A. Greenwood; 1st Choice Realty, Inc.; Getnick Livingston Atkinson Gigliotti & Priore, LLP; and Estate of Phyllis Fraccola

CourtDistrict Court, N.D. New York
DecidedNovember 19, 2025
Docket6:25-cv-00034
StatusUnknown

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Albert G. Fraccola, Jr. v. Hon. Scott J. Delconte; Hon. Stephen K. Lindley; Hon. Mark A. Montour; Hon. E. Jeannette Ogden; Hon. Donald A. Greenwood; 1st Choice Realty, Inc.; Getnick Livingston Atkinson Gigliotti & Priore, LLP; and Estate of Phyllis Fraccola, (N.D.N.Y. 2025).

Opinion

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK ____________________________________________

ALBERT G. FRACCOLA, JR.,

Plaintiff, vs. 6:25-cv-00034 (MAD/TWD) HON. SCOTT J. DELCONTE; HON. STEPHEN K. LINDLEY; HON. MARK A. MONTOUR; HON. E. JEANNETTE OGDEN; HON. DONALD A. GREENWOOD; 1ST CHOICE REALTY, INC.; GETNICK LIVINGSTON ATKINSON GIGLIOTTI & PRIORE, LLP; and ESTATE OF PHYLLIS FRACCOLA

Defendants. ____________________________________________

APPEARANCES: OF COUNSEL:

ALBERT G. FRACCOLA, JR. 14 Wadsworth Road New Hartford, New York 13413 Plaintiff pro se

OFFICE OF THE NEW YORK BRITTANY M. HANER, ESQ. STATE ATTORNEY GENERAL The Capitol Albany, New York 12224 Attorneys for Defendants DelConte, Lindley, Montour, Ogden, and Greenwood

GETNICK LIVINGSTON ATKINSON JEFFERY T. LOTTERMOSER, JR., & PRIORE, LLP ESQ. 258 Genesee Street, Suite 401 Utica, New York 13502 Attorneys for Defendant Getnick Livingston Atkinson Gigliotti & Priore, LLP

OFFICE OF PETER M. HOBAICA, LLC PETER M. HOBAICA, ESQ. 2045 Genesee Street Utica, New York 13501 Attorneys for Defendant Estate of Phyllis Fraccola

Mae A. D'Agostino, U.S. District Judge:

MEMORANDUM-DECISION AND ORDER I. INTRODUCTION Plaintiff, Albert G. Fraccola, Jr., commenced this action pro se on January 8, 2025. Dkt. No. 1. In his complaint, Plaintiff alleges that five New York state judges ("Judicial Defendants") violated his constitutional rights by issuing unfavorable rulings against him. See id. at ¶¶ 49-59. Specifically, Plaintiff brings his claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of his First, Fourth, Fifth, and Fourteenth Amendment rights. Id. at ¶ 2. The complaint seeks injunctive and declaratory relief, as well as millions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages. Id. at ¶¶ 60-63. There are three other non-judicial Defendants named in the complaint: 1st Choice Realty, Inc.; the law firm of Getnick Livingston Atkinson Gigliotti & Priore, LLC; and the Estate of Phyllis Fraccola. Dkt. No. 1. The Estate of Phyllis Fraccola filed a verified answer on March 1, 2025, which suffered from a filing deficiency that counsel remedied. Dkt. Nos. 15, 23. Likewise, the Getnick law firm filed an answer on March 5, 2025, which also suffered from a filing deficiency that was quickly addressed. Dkt. Nos. 18, 21-22. Meanwhile, 1st Choice Realty does not appear to be represented by counsel and has not filed anything in this action.1 Judicial Defendants did not file an answer. Instead, they filed a motion to dismiss on May 6, 2025, for failure to state a claim. Dkt. No. 30. Plaintiff filed a response on June 16, 2025, Dkt.

1 The record shows that a process server served a summons upon a person named Albert Fraccola, Jr., as president of Defendant 1st Choice Realty, at Plaintiff's home address. Dkt. Nos. 2-5, 14. The Court is uncertain whether Plaintiff essentially served the summons upon himself, or whether someone with the same name accepted the summons on behalf of Defendant 1st Choice Realty. No. 42, and Judicial Defendants filed a reply on June 26, 2025, Dkt. No. 43. Without authorization from the Court, Plaintiff filed an additional response on July 9, 2025. Dkt. No. 45. Judicial Defendants' motion to dismiss is now before the Court. II. BACKGROUND Plaintiff's claims stem from his role as a shareholder of 1st Choice Realty, Inc. ("the Business"), a now-defunct corporation. Dkt. No. 1 at ¶¶ 6-8. He and an individual named Phyllis Fraccola were each fifty-percent shareholders until January 23, 2016, when Phyllis Fraccola passed away. Id. at ¶ 6. Plaintiff claims that he and Phyllis Fraccola agreed to dissolve the

Business in 2002, id. at ¶ 7, which necessitated a winding up of the Business, id. at ¶ 8. However, Plaintiff claims he was prevented from winding up the Business because Phyllis Fraccola refused to meet with him. Id. at ¶ 9. In 2003, Plaintiff took legal action against Phyllis Fraccola in New York State Supreme Court, Oneida County. Id. at ¶¶ 9-10. There, Justice John W. Grow (who is not a defendant in this action)2 issued an order requiring both shareholders to take certain actions in furtherance of winding up the business. Id. at ¶ 12; see also id. at 30-31. Plaintiff alleges that Phyllis Fraccola did not comply, and in 2006, she and her attorneys (from the Defendant law firm) prepared two "spurious, fabricated, fake, forged[,] and false instrument deeds." Id. at ¶ 16; see also id. at 33-

36, 38-42. According to Plaintiff, the first forged deed purported to convey a 1st Choice Realty- owned property in Marcy, New York for Phyllis Fraccola's "permanent personal use." Id. at ¶ 17. Likewise, Plaintiff claims the second forged deed conveyed a 1st Choice Realty-owned property

2 The complaint contains allegations that Justice Grow lacked jurisdiction to issue a separate order in 2005. Dkt. No. 1 at ¶¶ 39, 41. The complaint also alleges that Justice Grow engaged in impermissible ex parte communications with an attorney in that matter. Id. at ¶ 42. However, neither Justice Grow nor the attorney are defendants in this case, and these allegations appear wholly unrelated to the claims that Judicial Defendants now seek to dismiss. in Troy, New York for the same purpose. Id. In August 2006, Phyllis Fraccola and her lawyers allegedly filed the fraudulent deeds with the county clerks in Oneida County and Rensselaer County, respectively. Id. at ¶ 19; see also id. at 36, 42. As a result, Plaintiff alleges that he has spent nearly two decades bringing "numerous Court actions to recover for the millions of dollars criminally purloined from" him and from the Business. Id. at ¶ 21. In 2022, Plaintiff sued Defendants 1st Choice Realty, Getnick law firm, and Estate of Phyllis Fraccola in New York State Supreme Court, Oneida County. Id. at ¶¶ 27-28; see also Fraccola v. 1st Choice Realty, No. CA2022-002865, 2023 WL 11014946 (Sup. Ct. Oneida Cnty.

Apr. 6, 2023). According to Plaintiff, his objective was to finally wind up the Business, which he characterizes as "in dissolution since January 7, 2004." Dkt. No. 1 at ¶¶ 27-28. As the presiding Supreme Court justice, Judicial Defendant Scott DelConte (now a justice of the New York State Supreme Court Appellate Division, Fourth Department) dismissed Plaintiff's complaint with prejudice in 2023. Id. at ¶ 35; see Fraccola, 2023 WL 11014946, at *2-3. In the decision, Judicial Defendant DelConte admonished Plaintiff for repeatedly filing "frivolous, vexatious[,] and meritless motions" and "unabashedly disregard[ing] the prior orders" of other judges. Fraccola, 2023 WL 11014946, at *1-2. Plaintiff appealed the 2023 DelConte decision to the Fourth Department, which he tangentially mentions in his complaint. See Dkt. No. 1 at ¶ 28;

Fraccola v. 1st Choice Realty, Inc., 224 A.D.3d 1227 (4th Dep't 2024). There, a panel comprised of Judicial Defendants Stephen Lindley, Mark Montour, E. Jeannette Ogden, and Donald Greenwood "unanimously affirmed" the decision. Fraccola, 224 A.D.3d at 1227. In the complaint, Plaintiff alludes to his unsuccessful prior legal pursuits with minimal specificity, arguing that "past and present lower Court Judges, Appellate Court Judges with opposing attorneys, in concert or separately for two (2) decades, crushed the dissolution process for 1st Choice Realty . . . ." Dkt. No. 1 at ¶ 33. In light of those repeated unfavorable rulings, Plaintiff now alleges that Judicial Defendant DelConte's 2023 order represents "an untrustworthy fabricated narrative to cover-up the two (2) Getnick law firm and then Phyllis Fraccola's alleged criminal forged and fake deeds." Id. at ¶ 38.

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