Your bookkeeper just disappeared with $850,000 from your construction company's operating account. Your former partner emptied a joint Manhattan brokerage account and bought a beach house in the Hamptons. The bank tells you it's a civil matter, the police tell you to hire a lawyer, and the money is moving fast. In New York, the legal vehicle for getting that money back isn't a breach of contract claim — it's a tort claim called conversion, often paired with a constructive tru