NEW CITY – Rockland County District Attorney Thomas Walsh, II announced Tuesday that his office has moved the county court for an order to disqualify attorney Michael Sussman from representing Grafton Thomas, the Greenwood Lake man accused of five counts of attempted murder.
Thomas allegedly entered a rabbi’s Monsey home during a Hanukkah celebration while armed with a machete and attacked several people, wounding five of them, one critically.
Sussman maintains Thomas is mentally unfit to stand trial but he has been charged with the crime on both the state and federal levels.
DA Walsh maintains Sussman is now a civilian witness in the case since he conducted a “search” and removed “evidence” that goes to his alleged defense, from a home that Thomas may have occupied several years ago.
Sussman has stated that he learned Thomas had rented a home in Wurtsboro and that he went there with the suspect’s mother and removed evidence in the case.
