You just discovered that your VP of sales in Midtown has been funneling deals to a competitor her husband owns. Over the past two years, she's collected roughly $340,000 in salary, commissions, and bonuses while quietly steering your best clients away. You want her out — but firing her doesn't get your money back. The faithless servant doctrine in New York is the tool that does. It's one of the most powerful remedies in employer-side commercial litigation, and most business o

Your CFO resigned last Thursday. On Friday, your bookkeeper flagged a decade of vendor invoices that don't tie to any project you can find. By Monday, an internal audit shows he'd been steering business to a shell company owned by his brother-in-law — and pocketing kickbacks on every invoice you paid. You want him prosecuted, but that's the DA's decision. What you actually control is a powerful civil remedy: under the faithless servant doctrine New York courts have applied si