From Courtroom Battles to Captivating Stories: Vincent Scarsella’s Unexpected Journey Revealed
Vincent Scarsella
All right. Well, I started practicing back in 1980. It’s been a while. I ended up in the Navy JAG Corps, the Judge Advocate General Corps for about four and a half years, became a prosecutor for about five years with the Airy County District Attorney’s Office, and then got a job kind of a unique kind of job prosecuting bad lawyers for the something called the Attorney Grievens Committee in up in Buffalo, New York. And I ended up being the Deputy Chief Counsel up there from 1989 to 2008. And in those 18 years, probably saw and reviewed about 15,000 complaints against lawyers practicing in Western New York, which encompasses Niagara Falls, Buffalo, and the Southern Tier, and handled some notorious cases. And, and while I was, after the after my time at the Grievens Committee was up, I practiced for about two and a half years as a lawyer, we’re heading a criminal tax fraud unit for the New York State Tax Department. So I’ve always been sort of in government practice. And I retired in 2010, and moved down to Florida from Buffalo. Although we go back, the last couple years, we go back up to Buffalo, we have three children and nine grandchildren and one on the way. And so, I always thought when I was doing the grievance work, the disciplinary work, that it would make a great TV series, because it’s kind of different. It’s internal affairs for lawyers. And, you know, the lawyer shows do great on TV. And although I dread watching them, because the law is always so wrong. And, you know, so I wrote a treat TV treatment. I did a screenplay, a pilot script, and thought, you know, try to pitch it, you know, of course, I’m a nobody, so didn’t go very far. And I ended up shelving it. And after I retired, I’ve always been writing since I was a kid, a teenager, and wrote a lot of short stories, some of them got published, you know, in magazines and whatnot. Not famous magazines, but you know, anthologies and things like that. And finally, after I retired, I said, well, it’s time to start writing novels. And I really put my time to it, you know, every day Saturday when you’re retired. And so I had a lot more time on my hands and, and put it to good use, I think.
