Suit: Dad owes big judgment in 1987 NY child death

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NEW YORK (AP) — A new lawsuit says a disbarred attorney convicted of killing his illegally adopted daughter in a 1987 case that riveted New York City still owes millions of dollars he was ordered to pay her birth mother a decade ago.

The mother’s lawyer sued Joel Steinberg Tuesday, seeking to renew the $15 million judgment in her a wrongful-death suit. It’s a step toward trying to collect.

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