PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: ….Lawyers ended up winning [Michael] Connors $425,000. From their share of his winnings, the lawyers paid about $35,000 in referral fees.
But that money didn’t go to McCaffery, who retired from the state Supreme Court late last year amid a scandal over pornographic e-mails. It went to his wife, who was also his judicial aide.
In a memo at the time, Connors’ lawyer explained it this way: “although this was referred to me by Seamus McCafferty . . . Seamus’s wife Lise Rapaport is an attorney and she gets the referral fee on it.” (The memo misspelled McCaffery’s name.) … (more)
