A Montgomery County judge accused Phillies co-owner John S. Middleton and his lawyers of “misleading omissions and false statements” in a case involving a long-running dispute with his sisters over the family fortune.
In a ruling issued March 16, Judge Lois E. Murphy of Montgomery County Orphan’s Court cited problems with Middleton's court filings in denying a request from the Phillies co-owner to affirm an agreement he reached in 2003 with his sisters.
The dispute involving the family's successful cigar company pits the billionaire against his younger sisters, Anna Nupson and Lucia Hughes, and has been grinding on for two years.