NYC lawyer and wife's cause of death on superyacht revealed
The first autopsies of Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda have been completed following the sinking of Bayesian off Sicily.
The New York City lawyer and his wife, who were among the seven who died in the sinking of the Bayesian superyacht last month off the coast of Sicily, were found to have drowned, according to autopsies.
Autopsies are planned for Wednesday to confirm the causes of death for Chris Morvillo and his wife Neda, as well as for Jonathan Bloomer, chairman of Morgan Stanley's London-based investment banking subsidiary, and his wife Judy, according to The Associated Press.
On Aug. 19, the Bayesian, with 12 passengers and 10 crew members on board, capsized and sank within minutes of being hit by a predawn storm. Civil protection officials suspect that the ship was struck by a waterspout, a tornado over water, near Porticello, where the yacht was anchored.
The autopsies for British tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch, his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, and the yacht's cook, Recaldo Thomas, are yet to be conducted.
Lynch had Morvillo as one of his U.S. lawyers in a fraud case concerning the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard for $11 billion. The deal turned sour due to allegations that Lynch had inflated Autonomy's value. Morvillo was acquitted in June.
The captain and two crew members of the 184-foot British-flagged luxury yacht are being investigated by prosecutors for their possible role in the sinking, which resulted in the rescue of fifteen people, including Lynch's wife.
The manufacturing company's CEO has attributed the yacht's destruction to a series of "inexplicable, unjustified mistakes" made by the crew.
Giovanni Costantino, CEO of the yacht, told Reuters that the crew made a "terrible blunder" by not being prepared for the storm, which was forecasted in shipping reports. The passengers should have been alerted and instructed to gather at a safety location as the ship took precautions such as raising the anchor, he said.
This report was contributed to by Michael Dorgan of Planet Chronicle, Greg Wehner, and The Associated Press.
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