Pool Death Causes Legal Ripples

November 12, 2013 

The civil lawsuit against David Lionetti

and his Shoreline Pools business promised

to be dramatic enough. After all, a

security video captured heroic efforts to try

to save 6-year-old Zachary Cohn last July

from a Greenwich pool installed by

Shoreline.

Cohn drowned after his arm got caught

in a powerful drain pump in the family’s

inground pool. And now Lionetti is in even

deeper water. Stamford State’s Attorney

David Cohen last week took the unusual

step of charging the pool company president

with second-degree manslaughter.

Authorities say Lionetti “recklessly