When a London lawyer arrived at a traffic stop involving his daughter, he berated a police officer with profanities, accused them of stealing $10,000 cash and demanded his daughter be let off the hook, a tribunal heard.
Const. Riley Morrow had pulled over lawyer Christoph Vitsentzato’s daughter on Nov. 13, 2018, for using her cellphone behind the wheel and determined her licence was suspended, prompting her to call her father to the scene.
Details of Vitsentzato’s interaction with Morrow and Const. Kasim Mailloux, who arrived as backup, are revealed in a recently released decision by the Law Society of Ontario tribunal finding Vitsentzato guilty of multiple counts of professional misconduct.
The officers testified Vitsentzato called Morrow “a piece of sh–,” accused him of stealing an en