A New York City lawyer who went missing after a yacht sank off the coast of Sicily wrote a haunting post on LinkedIn two months before he joined the doomed voyage. In one of his only posts on the site , Christopher Morvillo, 59, thanked his legal team after they helped British tech tycoon Mike Lynch win a fraud trial . Lynch owned the luxury yacht Bayesian , which sank early on Monday.
Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, Morvillo, Morvillo's wife Neda, British banker Jonathan Bloomer and his wife Judy are still missing. The remaining passengers have all been found. One person, the ship's chef, died in the storm.
Morvillo thanked his legal team and his family, and ended with a now poignant flourish. “And, finally, a huge thank you to my patient and incredible wife, Neda Morvillo, and my two strong, brilliant, and beautiful daughters, Sabrina Morvillo and Sophia Morvillo," he wrote. “None of this would have been possible without your love and support.
I am so glad to be home. And they all lived happily ever after..
..” Morvillo is a partner at Clifford Chance, a white-collar law firm with offices on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
He previously worked as a federal prosecutor who investigated the September 11 terror attacks, according to the New York Post . He and his legal team successfully defended Lynch from fraud allegations brought by Hewlett-Packard stemming from the tycoon's sale of his Autonomy company to HP for $11bn in 2011. “This verdict closes the book on a rel.