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