August 20, 2026 NEW YORK, NY A devastating Manhattan lawsuit paints a harrowing picture of parental dreams exploited for profit, alleging that a local surrogacy practice operated an elaborate scam that defrauded a hopeful father out of thousands of dollars and five precious years.

Edward Gonzalez, 48, has refiled a explosive lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court accusing Manhattan-based Surrogacy4All and its connected entities of catastrophic breach of contract, medical privacy violations, and outright fraud.

Gonzalez claims he handed over roughly $34,000 starting in 2019 to fulfill his lifelong dream of becoming a father, only to be met with half a decade of lies, broken promises, and shocking negligence.

Five Years of Fabricated Progress and Broken Promises

According to court documents, Surrogacy4All strung Gonzalez along with a continuous sequence of fabricated updates to keep him paying and waiting.

Over five years, clinic staff allegedly assured Gonzalez that:

• His embryos were actively being created.

• Sixteen potential surrogates were in the pipeline, with two being actively prepared.

• A surrogate had officially been reserved exclusively for him.

When Gonzalez pressed for hard timelines, the clinic routinely cited bizarre excuses for the delay—ranging from a "broken sex-selection machine" to claims that lab technicians were stranded by COVID-19 travel restrictions. Month after month, scheduled transfers were promised and repeatedly postponed.

The facade reportedly crumbled when Gonzalez was accidentally copied on internal company email threads. The communications allegedly revealed that staff had systematically lied about his case progress, misrepresenting the surrogates and egg donors available to him.

Secret Miscarriages, Foreign Labs, and Privacy Disasters

The internal email leaks uncovered even more alarming revelations.

In 2024, an accidentally forwarded thread revealed that an embryo transfer had allegedly occurred—without Gonzalez’s knowledge, explicit consent, or information on who the surrogate was. The leaked records showed the surrogate miscarried 16 days later, a outcome the clinic actively concealed from him.

The lawsuit further details a series of egregious operational failures:

• Offshore Shipping: Gonzalez’s sperm sample was sent to an unvetted clinic in Ghana with which he held no direct contract or legal protections.

• Massive Data Leaks: Confidential medical data belonging to Gonzalez and 16 other patients was accidentally blasted to outside clients without consent.

• Disturbing Marketing: The clinic provided Gonzalez a catalog of prospective surrogates that allegedly contained an individual who "plainly appears to be a female child."

A Network of "Alter Egos" Under Fire

The lawsuit names a web of interconnected entities sharing a Manhattan office space, including Surrogacy4All, Indian Egg Donors, Patients Medical P.C., DGA Inc., and Gulati Holdings LLC.

Also named as defendants are Rashmi Gulati and Deepak Gulati, the alleged owners behind the operation. The suit notes that Rashmi Gulati previously pleaded guilty to federal securities fraud in 1992. Gonzalez alleges all the corporate entities function as alter egos designed to insulate the owners while confusing desperate clients.

Defense attorney David Bowles, representing Surrogacy4All and the Gulatis, stated the defendants had no comment on the ongoing litigation other than noting a previous federal dismissal on jurisdictional grounds. Bowles added that he expects the newly refiled state court case to be "dismissed in due course."

Hundreds of Victims Alleged Across Online Forums

Gonzalez's legal team asserts that his nightmare was not an isolated operational failure, but rather part of a systemic business model targeting hundreds of vulnerable prospective parents.

The complaint alleges that Surrogacy4All routinely advertises false success rates of 90%, claims to be "FDA Registered Fully Licensed" while lacking appropriate authorization, and recruits gestational surrogates from unvetted online forums like Reddit and Craigslist.

Multiple users across online fertility communities have shared strikingly similar stories, claiming the clinic took tens of thousands of dollars, provided fabricated updates, and cut off communication for years.

Gonzalez is seeking hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages, alongside a full refund of all funds paid to the clinic.

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