Keep your taunts to yourself.
The judge presiding over the wrongful death lawsuit against New York Crane owner James Lomma advised the construction big to lay off sending emails to the victims’ lawyers.
The Post reported last week that on the night Lomma was acquitted of manslaughter charges stemming from a 2008 crane collapse, he sent emails to lawyers Susan Karten and Bernadette Panzella showing one of his cranes lifting the space shuttle onto the carrier jet that carried it to New York.
The lawyers, who represent the families of deceased construction worker Ramadan Kurtaj, 27, and crane operator Donald Leo, 30, took the emails as Lomma’s way of saying he’s untouchable.
In court today, Justice Paul Feinman didn’t get into the meaning of the emails, but said it was “inappropriate” for Lomma to send emails to the plaintiffs’ lawyers, and that he should only communicate with them through his attorney.
“It won’t happen again, Your Honor,” said Lomma lawyer Glenn Feurth. He said Lomma had been upset about comments that Karten and Panzella had made about him to the press after the verdict.
Feinman also ordered Lomma to sit for his long-awaited deposition in the case immediately after Labor Day. Kurtaj, Leo and other victims of the East 91st Street crane collapse are suing him, his company and others involved in the crash for negligence.