Neda Morvillo and Chris Morvillo attended Summer Birthday Cocktails For Lawrence Kaplan at Tower 270 – Rooftop on June 21, 2018 in New York City. Seven people died when the superyacht *Bayesian* sank during a sudden, violent storm on August 19.

The yacht was carrying 22 people, including 12 passengers and 10 crew members. Autopsies for Christopher and Neda Morvillo confirmed drowning as the cause of death, and were conducted by coroners appointed by Palermo prosecutors.

The autopsies for Jonathan and Judy Bloomer are scheduled for Wednesday, while the autopsies for the remaining three victims—Mike, his daughter Hannah, and chef Thomas—are still pending. The yacht trip had been organized by Lynch to celebrate a recent legal victory.

Morvillo was one of Lynch’s U.S. lawyers in a fraud case involving the 2011 sale of Autonomy, a British search engine company, to Hewlett-Packard in an $11 billion deal that quickly soured amid allegations of falsified financial records. Lynch was acquitted of the charges in June.

Morvillo had previously worked as a federal prosecutor who investigated the September 11 terror attacks, according to the *New York Post*. An investigation has been launched to examine each possible element of responsibility, including those of the captain, the crew, individuals in charge of supervision, and the yacht’s manufacturer.

Cutfield, the captain, is currently under investigation for “negligent shipwreck and multiple counts of negligent homicide,” according to the Italian news agency ANSA.