PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: The FBI is investigating Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Seamus P. McCaffery over fees his wife received for referring clients to personal-injury law firms, The Inquirer has learned.
The investigation is examining 19 referral fees paid to Lise Rapaport, the justice’s wife and his chief aide for most of the last 16 years, according to several people with direct knowledge of the investigation.
In March, The Inquirer reported that Rapaport received an $821,000 referral fee in 2012 after a Philadelphia law firm successfully settled a multimillion-dollar medical-malpractice case… (more)
EDITOR: It is about time!
