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Case ID: 140203044


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contacte by The Inquiren
CastiJie said they raised the
potential fpr
"conflicts f ister-
esl and, the appearncs of irn-
propri.ety
arising frarn a
jugds
staff employee practicing
l,aw
while receiving fair cc
rpes*
tion while employed in a
judi-
cial chambe and especially in
a
judicial
chamber."
Castlle and McCa#:ery have
been bitterly at odds in reeent
morfls,
personally
aad profes-
sionally.
As the fees have come in, Mc-
Caffery has ruled on il Su-
preme
Csurt cases ia which
som sf the rms tied to the
fees were participants.
Lawyers
in the cases say the
justice
nev-
er disclosed the fees.
In eight of those ll appeals, M+
Cafferyvod in faror of the legal
position advancd by the firrls
&t had received refelrals fuom
Eapapo*
See
in other cases,
REFERfffS on A6
J
on
The fees received by
Justice McCaffe#s wife
-
one for
$831,0t
-
draw scrutiny from
tastille and ethicists.
By CTaig A *fcCry
I !8 rREr, srFF UgITES,
Over the last decade, the wife
of Pennsylvania Supreme Court
Justice Seamus P. McCaffery
-
his chief
judicial
aide
-
has re-
ceived f8 payments
as referral
fees for connecting law nns
with clients.
In the most recent payurent,
McCaffert's wifen lawyer Lise
Rapaport received
$8et,ooo
-
her fee from a settlemert i:sr a
multimIion-doliar rnadical rnal-
practice
cse.
Court records and McCaf-
fert's state-rnandated public -
nancial-disclosure forms list
tlfe $ instances in hicb his
,,. rife received a referal fee.
..lauryerforthe eouple, and a
toraeys with the rms, say the
fees raer routine and pmper.
But the bigh esurt's chief
jus-
tice, Ronald . Castille, ques-
tisned Eapaport's rnaking refer-
rals, as did scme legal experts
Ta Sr fisderg
t A dnft of this story appeared
inadwrtently for sevenl hours
Sunday on ti Phllly.com website.
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Case ID: 140203044


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Allr hla N{,rL;,RR trlo}Y Hnclt
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kr top Pa. court, a
{pestion
on fees
REERR$S from At
Referral fees a normal prac-
tice in Penns'yhani An attorney
who rcfers a client to a firm shares
in any eventual settlement or
award. It is typically one-third of
tle primary law firmt contingency
fee, which is atso on+tldrd. There
is no requirement in Pennsyhania
tilat he refening lawyer perform
any wor{< on the case.
State
judicial
n:les do ot speci-
cany tequire state Suprcme Court
justices
to disctosc from the bench
that a faxilymernberhas ceived
such referral
payments.
There is no indication any of
tlose cses in which McCaffery
puticipated $ere enes in which
his rvife had received a rcferral
,.
His
participation apparently
rame in appeals in other cses
invIving various lawyers frnm
the firms, either as litigants or in
friend-of-the court briefs.
The state Code of Judicial Con-
duct sysjudges should in gener-
al eonsider recusing thernselves
when their "impartiality might
reasonably be questioned."
Howeveq the code also says
the fact that a spouse is affiliated
with the frrm in a ase before the
court "does not of itself' disquali-
ly the
judge.
In interviews, three law profes-
sors erpert in
judicial
ethics said
McCaffery should have disclosed
the payments
or recused himself
in all ses involving the firms
associated with the referrals.
To other experts said they saw
no obligatio to disclose.
Lawrence J. Fon former man-
agrng
partner
of Drinker, Biddle
1:tl,iljlff?I3
yl'
counsels law fi.rms on
profession-
al responsibility and ethics, srtr
no obligation for McCaffery to
tell other litigants about the fees
his wife received, but be said be
agreed cornpletely'rvith Castille's
objections. He said Rapaport
should not have been paid for
the referrals while employed by
the courts.
"I think he's righf" said Fox,
founder of the Ethics Bureau at
Yale Univers Iw School.
Dion G. Rassias, alawyerforMc-
Caffery and Rapaport, said in a let-
ter to T?re Inquirer on Friday that
Rapaport had made 'liegitimate
and propet'' referrals to col-
leagues.
He said that because of her "er
celient rep$ation and magnetc
personaligo
many clieng frorn
her dap in private pnactice had
come to her for'legal advice and
representationn and tbat she had
connected them to other lawyers.
In a complex debate, the two
justices
now diffcr about wheth-
er making referrals constitutes
'the
practice
CIf law"
Castille said it does. The law-
yer
for McCaffery and Rapaport
said it does not.
Five experts on legal ethics
said they believed refenals wsre
the practice of law
The issue has assumed impor-
tance because under court
per-
sonne]
policies, iawyers who
work for the coufi must fi.rst get
approval from the chief
justice
before practicing law'
The Inquirer asked Castille
whether he would permit Rapa-
pfi or oter lawyers on the
court staf to male referrals.
' would not" he said in a rwit-
ten statemenl Cstille said Rapa-
port rr otber lawyers on the
corfi staf to nnake referals.
'I
would nct" he said in a writ-
ten stateme*t Castille said Rapa-
port
never sought that permission.
Rassias said there ias n0 valid
rcason for McCaffery to have dis-
qulied himself from cases inolv-
ing the finns.
Rassias characterized The In-
qnirefs questions
about the refer-
ral fes as
"simp
a masque:ade"
for an attack on McCaffery and
said he had advised McCaffery and
Rapaport not to lk to the paper.
?he lnquirer first sought an inter-
view with the couple Feb. 12,
As a
stice,
MeCa$ery is paid
$rgS
yearly, s chief adminis-
trative
judicial
assistant, Rapaport
is paid
$ZJSS
a yeax,
Rapaport has worked for the
sCIurts as a
judicial
aide since 1997.
Before that, she was an assisnt
distrid attorney for five years
and
was in private practice
for 13
yea:r.
The referral fees first appear
on McCaffert's financial-disclo-
sure forms in 2003, tbe
year
he
ran for the appeals bench. There
/ere no such fees during his
nine
years
on Philadelphia Mu-
nicipal Court, according to his
disclosure formsn including the
six
years
Rapaport
yras
a court
seeretary in Msnicipal Court.
On an official court website for
the state bar, Rapapoft lists her-
self as a lawyer working for the
Supreme Coufi. She gives her ad-
dress as "Chambers of Justice
McCaffery" 150O Market St., Phil-
adelphia.
n the site, Rapaport states
she has no malpractice insur-
anee'because I have no private
clients." In Rassias' lette he Case ID: 140203044
*roir tut onr" n pupoJ;tgn
working ivithin the court system,
she stopped practicing law."
Public information about the
fees is not extensive. Disclssure
rules for
judges
require t}rem
only to make public basic infor-
mation about outside income for
a
judge
and his spouse
-
the
sourpe and the year.
Judges
need not reveal amounts paid or
hsw the money was earned.
Of the eight frrrns involved
with referrals, five did not re-
spond to repeated calls.
Tre others said the referral fees
to Rapapoft wer mutine and ap
pmpriate. One said his rm was
among three Rapaport suggested
to a client s a
possible hire.
The priyate lawyers wouldn't
identify the cases or say how
much Rapaport had received.
Fe in c[ild's ca$s
In the one fee made pub1lg Ra-
paport received a referral in the
amount sf
$821,519.
Thatwas her
share from t}te resolution of a
suit filed by the firm Fodera,
Long & Lalli alleging that a
2-year-old boy was brain darn-
aged by doctors' mistakes.
The docurnents show that the
boy's
garents
hired Lesnard
Fodera's firm in 2CI7 and that
"Lise Rapaport, Esquire," made
the referral,
The amount of Rapaport's fee
was disclosed because the settie-
ments of suits involving minors
are filed publicly as a way to pro-
tect their rights.
ln the case;- the' Fodera lirm
filed suit irl 2009 on behalf of a
Northeast Philadelphia couple
who had taken their son to St.
Christophet's Hospital for Chil-
dren in 2001 after he had a possi-
ble seizure.
The suit says doctors waited
too long in giving him an antivi-
ral drug, By the time the boy
came hme, it said, he'd been
devastated by herpetic encephali-
tis, which left him unable to talk,
mentally damaged, iegally bnd,
incontinent, and epileptic.
The case lpas settled for
$7.5
rnillion. Fodera's firm kept a
third of that. Rapaporf received
the "third of a third."
The boy's parents signed
court document that spelled out
the papnent to Rapaport. he
family declined ts comment in
person or by phone.
In his lettef Rassias said the
family was '?ery upset'' at the
atternpts to cntart tlem.
Fodera, in a brief interview,
said only, "Ttrere really is no is-
sue" with the referral fees. He
did not elaborate or return fol-
low-up phone calls on that or oth-
er fees.
His firm, which changed
names several times, is listed as
a source of referral income for
Rapaport in 2003, 284,2005,
29, and in the malpractice
case in 7012.
Traffc f,ourt rsport
Perhaps stiltr best kown for
cracking down on unruly fans at
"Eagles Court" 15 years
ago, Mc-
Caffery 62,in more recent years
has
joined
vrith Castille in over-
hauling Phadelphia criminal
courts to make sure more cases
were tried on their merits.
He was in the news in Novem-
ber rhen a repofi on comrption
in Philadelphia Tlaflic Court sug-
gested in part that McCaffery
had frxed a ticket issued to Rapa-
port. The
justice
denied that.
The investigative report was
written by a consultant hired at
Castille's suggestion.
McCaffery's anger over the
public release of the embarrass-
ing report exacerbated long-
standing tension between him
and Castille, lYith McCaffery's
case in 2t12.
Tnffic Cauil rporl
Perhaps still best known for
cracking down on unruly fans at
"Eagles Courf'15
years
ago, Mc-
Caffery 62, in more recent years
has
joined
witb Castille in over-
hauling Philadelphia crirninal
courts to make sure more cases
were tried on their merits.
He was in te news in Novem-
ber when a report on comrption
inPhiladeiphia atric Court sug-
gested in part that McCaffery
had xed a ticket issued to Rapa-
pofi. The
justice
denled that.
The investigative report was
written by a consultant hired at
Castille's suggestion.
McCafferyk anger ovsr the
public release of the embarrass-
ing report exacerbated long-
standing tensisn between him
and Castille. 14ith McCaffet's
backing, sources say, Castille's
feliow
justices
in January took
aay hls role as cTerseer of Phil-
adelpbia's courts.
former
police
officer, McCaf-
fery becan:e a Philadeiphia Mu-
nicipal Court
judge
in 1994. e
began sering on the state Supe-
rior Court in 204 and on the
Supreme Court in 2008.
He and Rapaport married in
1990. His wife, 61, has an under-
graduate degree from Harvard
Uaiversity and a law degree
frorn the Universify of Pennsylva-
nia.
Judicial rules gover:l referral
fees somewhat and further regu-
late the practice of law.by-em-
ployees of the eaurt system.
For one thing, the rules stipu-
late that only lawyers can re-
ceive referral fees.
Along with the rule requiring
approval frorn a chiefjustice, oth-
er coufi policies cover the prac-
tice of law by employees. They
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Case ID: 140203044
proval from the
judge
who super-
Mak * Cunningham" a lawyer rvhich 3appo* received fees.
vises them.
in Marlto& said Rapaport had re- Nor do the disclosure forms indi-
In Rapaport's case, that rneant
femed at least one case to him be, cate whefher the referral incorne
she would have needed permis-
cuse she wasnt licensed in New eomes from one case or seyeral
sion to practice law from her hus-
Jersey, handled by the same law firm.
band, who was also her supervi-
George Marti& a founder of a Court dockets do sholrythat M
sor. In his lette Rassias said
nowdisbandd Philadelphia rm, Caffery took part in the 11 cases
that making referrals
lws
not lvartiq Banks, Pond" Ihoc & sinee 208 in which the lawyers
practicing iaw. Wilson, said a lawyer with that taking one position or another
nocommrrsrrom snrms
*ffiffirlftftrS i"':.*".xi.t'"ill*J"
Of the firms that received re- al workers' compensatioa cases. In interviews, law professors
femal,s from Rapapor'tr loadors of M{lrtin said the 0urr!8 Rapap'o s'aid the-fees reiged eormplicted
ve did not retum repeated tele- received were 'lnodest amounts." issues, and they offered d-iffering
phone calls. Lawyers with the Pond didn't refirrn cals. assessments.
'others provided' some informa- Abraharn C. Reich, cochair of Five tegal schulars who are ex-
tion brt would not name tle un- the Philadelphia firm of Fox perts
on ethics or te state Su-
derlying cases or say how much
Rothschild, said the referral dat- preme Court said they saw refer-
Rapaport had received.
ed to a sase settled in 1992- That ials as being the practice of lal'
I"n an intemiex6 Pefer S" Frjed-
cleared the way for annuai pay-
n the iisue of disctosutre,,
:14n, founder of the Friedrnan
ments, he said. Bruceledewitz,professoroflaw
Schuman rm in Montgcmery
"The firrn continued to receive at uquesne lJaiversity and an
Counry, said he would look into payments
&ereafter and it hon- expert on the state high court,
the relevant cases, He didn't re-
ored the referral arrangement," said he did not think McCaffery
turn follow-up calls.
(McCaf- Reic.h wrote in as e-mail. "The was under an obligation to tell
fen/s brothe Daniel, is a mem- amounts paid are not sig$ifi- litigants about the referral fees.
ber of the Friedman firm.) cnt.' Fox also said he did not be-
Robert Mongehrzz.i, a founder
In his disclosure, McCaffery lieve McCaffery was obligated to
of a Fhiladelphia
personal-injury said the income frorn referral disclose the fees. t}ough he said
firm
qith
a special expertise in fees in the Fox Rothschild mat-
h was troubled by the referyals
constnction accidents, did not ter came in 2008 and 2009. in the first place.
respond to repeated calls. Irr appeals involving Fox Roths-
Though it would be unfair to
Neither did Howe1l K. Rosen-
child c{ent, McCaffery
-voted
mit the ability of spouses of law-
berg, a founder of Broolcnan, against tle
{rylt
position in so
yers
to
practie
]aw, Fox said, "it
Rosenberg, Brown & Sandler, a cases and with it in a third.
iooks different because she's in
pioneer in asbestos litigation. "I feel very condent that our
his charnbers."
Rosenberg was briefly quoted firm acted ethically and appropri- ,,She,s
a public servant,,, he
il a 2010l.,eeal Intet_ligen-cer ai-
ately_wit? respect to this mat-
said.
cie that took note of McCaffe4s
ter," Reich said.
finansial disclosures. Rosenbeg,
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r-
In an initial interview, Monroe
a mernber of rhe suprern
Te lssue of rerals
H. Freedman of the Hofstra IJni-
Court's Disciplinary Board for
Of the more than S0
judges yersit-f
Law School said McCaf-
lwyers, si'at ile time g
who have ser.ved on state p-
fery should recuse himeelf from
lcrew of no ruie barring
judges' peals
courts since McCaffefu
ny cses invslving the firms
aides from making refeats.-
ioined
the Superior Court bencl
tied to referral fees.
"I would not think it wouid be
in 2904, at least eight lryere mar- Interviewed again Sunday and
problematic,'
he said.
ried to practicing lawyers. asked whether that was practical
Charles E. Schmidt Jr. of
None of those lawyers 1Tas em-
-
especially in a profession in
Schmidt Krameq a Harrisburg
ployed by the courts.
which
judges
are often married
firrfl, said Rapaport's referral
}Tthout knowing the names of
to hwyers
-
he said McCaffery
stemmed rm a settlement after a
plaintiffs in a sui it is impcssi
ssud have disclosed f}e refer-
fatal car crash- He said the settls
ble to trace through the eourt
s or recused himself if he
ment amount was "significant."
system aay specific cse in
chose not to reveal them.
Case ID: 140203044
freedman also said that
should be the rule for any
judges
hearing cases in which the law
firm before them employs a
sporse.
Islie Iil. .{bramsn, a Univer-
sity of Louisville Iv School
pro-
fessnr who has sfirdied thc ethi-
cal issues facing
judges
and iaw-
yer/relatives, also said McCaf-
fery should have disclosed the
fees.
Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr., an
erseri&s
professor
at the Univer-
sity of Pennsylvania Iw School
and Hastings Coliege School of
Law n"San F,rancisco, n erpert
on legal ethical issues, said Mc-
Caffery should have recused him-
self from those cases.
Hazard said tire
public
would
likely be troubled bsth by Rapa-
port's accepting the fees and the
,fact
th,a,t hCIr huebald had voted
on cases involving the rms.
'Tn the
publiCs
mrd, it
tfftccf-
fery's
participation
in the casesl is
rvrong, and in the mind of some
pcoplc vho nra concsmed with
ju-
dicial ethies, ifs wrong" Huard
sid"
In his leTteq Rassias said therc
ras no nsed sr teryll requirement
for such a'gid" recusl standard
-
one thathe said wonid mean the
high court would
'1ike never''
have a full complement of
judges
to decide any ce.s.
s for te lawyers who had a
role in the 11 cases, most were
unwilling to say whether theybe-
lieved McCafforyshould have re-
vealed the fees.
One who would csmment was
Thomas More Matrone, on tle
losing side of a ?011 appeal. '"Io
me it dooen't malter," he said.
"I think he is a terrific
justice,"
Marrone said of McCaffery. "1
think he's fai I think he's as fair
as the day is long."
But Chales S. Katz, Jr., a Paoli
lawyer who lost a 208 case, said
he had not known about the re-
ferral fees.
"Had I known about it, I would
have erpected him to recuse him-
self,o'Katz said.
A
iudge
and a spouss
The issue of a lanryer/spouse's
relationship to a
judge
came up
emphatically iast year
in a case
before the state Superior Court.
In lfovember, the Superior
Co urt sharply criticized Plila d el-
phia Common Pleas Cnurt Judge
Allan L. Tereshko for failing to
disclose in a case that his wife, a
lawyeq worked for a law frrm de-
fendi.ng an insurance company
in a worlace'iqiury lawsuit.
In the Treshko cse, his ife
qas
a salarid employee of a
rm that specializes ia defend-
ing
persond-iRi$ry
s*its. Refer-
ral fees did not play a rle.
For
years, Tbreshko also filed
to list his wife's employer on his
disclosure forms. He recentiy
corrected that omission, frling
amended reports ith state
court admiaistrators.
The appeals court noted its
"disapproval"
of Treshko,
though his wife had not been a
lawyer in the specific suit before
him and was nat a
par'rer
shar-
ing in
profits.
Tereshko declined to comment
for this articie.
Tereshko resigned as supenris-
ing
judge
for civil suits in Phila-
delphia, but sought to keep hear-
ig such cases. The Supreme
Court instead removed Treshko
fronn civil court, effectively de-
moting him. McCaffery was
among the
justices
determined
to see him removed, sources i
the legal community said.
In January, the high court reas-
signed Tereshko to hear
juvenile-
court cases, his
job
2 years earli-
er, when he first becarne a
judge"
Contact Craig R. McCoy at
215-854-4821 r
c mccoy@phil lynews.com.
lnquirer staff wrte,r Joseph A.
Slobodzian contributed to this article.
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Case ID: 140203044
to
t'lcCaffert's second
year
on the Pennsylvania
Supreme Court, his wife
Lise Rapaport receiyed
referral fees from three
law firms.
- Fox,Rothrchild LLP
{spouse}
- Slvarrnan & Fodera
fspstst)
- Scbmdt Karner PC
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soon as the
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kneeler in the pows.and prayed
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papacy ln favor
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ililff Erclrlyc: Referral fees the
Pa.
justice's
wife
referral fee in 2012 after a Philadel-
phia law firm successfrlly settled a
received are focus. Ca"stille raises Ethics Act issue.
multimillion-dollar rnedical-malprac-
tice case.
By0trsigR. McCoy The investigation is exarnining 19 Dion G.
INQUIRI'R STAFF' WIIITER
referal fees paid to Lise Rapaport, the
justice
any
Ttre FtsI is investigating Pennsyl- the
justice's
wife and his chief aide zuggestion that there wis a federal
vania Supreme Court Justi ce Sea- for most of the
accord-
only on
condition
that they not be identied.
for It could not be deterrrined whether
the two investigations were related.
Municipal Court, the lower tier in
the Philadelphia
judicial
system,
heas drunken drivingcases and mi-
nor crimial and civil violations.
the federal inquiry into Municipal Justlcr Scrm P.
see tcGlfgf on A6 Hccilhry
A fedeal investigation of
pal Court is also underway,
ing to sources urtro spoke
mus P- McCaffery over fees his wife ing to several
received for referring cents to per-
law frrms, Tlre Inguirer sonal-irfury
has learned.
knowledge of the investigation.
In March, The Inquirer
last t6
years, accord-
people with direct
reported
$821,000
Rassias, an attorney
and bis wife, called
investigation "complete nonsense."
He also said McCaffery has not
done "a[ything at all improper."
'You' indging rumo without
any facts, which is sad,'he said. that Rapaport received an
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PLAINTIFF'S
EXHIBIT
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Case ID: 140203044
FBI McCaffery
a o
over wifeis referrat
:
fees
cfffEl|r
fnon Al
Court
was ftrst reported
-sunday.by
the Let Inlli.
.gencer
on its website. .
Sin0e'2003,, tho year
ltllc'
Caffery
first ran for
fte
an-
pels
bench, he hs rqqn-
ed that his wife has nB-
ceivd income ftom
-refer-
ral fees every
yean
$uch fees, whictr are lo
gfl
in Pennsylvania, ane
paid
to comnsate a lw-
yer
for brinsng a client to
a rm if the litigntion is zuc-
cessful, fically, the refer;
ring
larryer
gets
a third of
any fec
paid to the fitrn.
Rassias, along wttt prin-
cipals in the firms that re-
ceived the referrats fmm
Rpaport, described the
fees as roudne and
proper.
In a March I letter to The
Inquire Rssias said fte
justice's
wife was sought
ou by clients because she
is a lawyer with an
'excel"
lent rcputation and mag'
netic
personafity,"
Ilassias said tlrat forrnor
clients of Rapapofi, dating
to when she'was in prvate
practice,
sought her out
for legal advce and that
she
.in
turn referred them
to other.lawyers.
Pennsylvania Chief Jus-
tice Ronald D. Castlle has
sharply ci,'ticized the efer-
rals, telling The Inguirer
in March tlut he wa$ tnou-
bled tbat a court aide
would bc collectng fees
while
-ernployd
in a
judi-
cial chnmber."
'
Inteviersd.. rcently,
Cstilc'frid
the
ba uFged
fellow
justces',
sonsidgr
tlerc.to bamme. drulnis-,
ffitiye
juds,
fl. top
pqsi-
'tion
:
-.
He begEn senring sn the
stte Sunerior Court in
w andou tho suprnme
Court in 2008. Mctaffery
is
peid.$f99,606 yeaf,
as
a
iutics'
AB hir chief ad-
ministrtive
judisiat
essis-.
tant, Rapapon is 'pad'
S75,39SEyeaL
"
:
In his' persont'
Fn{ncd
digcluguru, which mst be
fcd annualty, frfcCgftiy
har rcported t hie. wifc
receiwd palment.
fmm
sttlment or verdic$ in
ttcs purnred
by.,cight
difiercnt la nns
The moat rcaent digcto-
sru rpport, fled in Mry,
citd two rm ag sourrses
of refcnil fGGs. ne was
$chmldtlftrrner bssod in
Harrisburg, which also
I
r
whethe'ltfcCaffy iltSbt
lrare voltd the site Eth-
ics Act:U he
gnve
hls $'$e
nrmfasion
to'rnal$ th.Fs^
ferrds srd:aem t fc,
TIre Ethics AG't bars
pub.
lis, officiati. fmm .u*ing
their eutbority
rfor'the
nrl-
vate
pecuniary
benef
'of
their'hmilis. .
'
:
:
"By'giltitg
her ptiriC:
sion, helr
:feathering
his
osn nest
T
,Gfstlle
si4,
*It's
an obuiorts cbnf,ict
?.
Rpsdrs nma,sffrd lfio
dsy S he would ttspond'
Ctgtleb:.srgtloL He
+lid nm',rcarn' zubseqent
cdls fur cqmEqit
,....
. Irr {mr Ir h 1e
Iquir,
'dated.
lilrrh 1{;
Raaeru caid itr.$rtttht c.
purpndngmrtdqr.,
cald ftn ltctafrry-
e
Lny deciso.rntg
in deterttnig shrither
aidcs sch is.hi sif'cH
prrctice, .Iaw while
.e'm.
pb1nd
by th nrL
A former city
policc
ofi
ficeri McCaffery,
a
Demo.
crat, bccume a Mruricipql
Coun
judge
itr 1991,' rifi$s
Case ID: 140203044
Pr, $upnmo Coun Justlcr Srmu P. l{cCrflery in 2008 with wife Lise apport, his chief
aide, whoge referral fees from law firms are at issue. Guzagq oorrf,tsox/ srtrftoroorehor
was $ource of referral
fees in 209 and 2011.
$tate law reguires off
cials to include only the
nmes of those who prc-
vde income to the offi-
eial's household, not
amorlnts or other details.
McCaffery aleo listed a
2Ol2
payment from the
firrn of Philadelphia law-
yer
Leonard Fodera. In
thig. inetmce,
'gthei
sourt
recsrds
.revenl
:
tat the
firrr
p+id
Rapaport
$821,O0O
latt
'yean
Tht
qag.
her'shr of
.s
muti-
milliondollai'setttement
stemmin$hom a' civil law-
suit:ledfy ttrc,fuuity of a
Nprthea$t,
.,Philadlphi,r
bo left
,
rpicly impaird
afrer treatinfit at a Phila'
-delphi-troo$tgl,*
tte amouit became
pub-
llc orly, thrg.ugh
,a,
prwi'
aio, in' t .,Irrw..thst rc-
'guires
ridt details bs
It s not unmmon fol,
th
HBI nd theJuficeDs"
partrnent
to toot lnto a
rnatter, sopetines for
lengtby pcr.iodp;'
d to
conclude . there is' no
,and no
comc atls
federal
don't. sofirnl
ed nine for:ner and ciu-
rsst TIhffic Corrt
judees
on' chalgos of fixing tiok
ets.
Ltc last year,
a consul
ant's rcport conrsrissionsd
by officists of the nhihdel-
phia courts
gggg?b{
tbri
McCafrery
he.d
r.d a tick-
et giiren b ii r+if; ildaf-
deny t}t existene or Donr
existence of
.
invertiga-
tions sid: Pattr frt-
maft, a snkeenroma''for,
the U,$,' Attoraqfr Offi,co.
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Case ID: 140203044
fery ha.s adamantly denied
nvoluement. He was nt
arong
those charyed by
the
grand
jury
and the
Aard
jur/s
isdirrents in'
clude no reference to the
tick*t involvirtg hs v/ife.
Rapaport holds an under-
graduate
degre from Har-
vard University and a law
degroe fton the University
of Pennqylvana. Before
joning
her hsband's
judi.
cial staff in 1997, she
worked for forr
yea$
as an
assistant disFict attomey
anq I
years
as a
private
lawr. speciallzin g. in fami-
y law.
11r Iquirgr hae rercrt-.
ed that McCaffery nrled,
, on fi nunbef
'of
.'case
bc-
fg.the $upmrrfs' Crt in-'
wtving fims
:
ftom*nrhicb ;
Rpa.pon had derivrt r
'femilfee$.
Ile did:so witli.
qut
advieind;ldqyygra ,
ifi-
volred in i cascs'about,,
the'fee,ar-rarigilent,
:
.'
'
. Itfe's ro,c;rridenpc to
Eugiest'that hc wted on
'sareg.
'n .rhich his. wife
bsdrivedfets',,.
':
-.'
-,
Mcfafiery
qf i4,'however,
st on otle csee-in trhich
Fu addndr horeve, at
he did not tbiirk,ltcCaffery
.'lrad
h discDs dhe'fesi to
Iawyers iin', cqE-s
lbfor.e
.
him,Ihro ther.!rs dis'
grood and caled for discki
irurs.tilonr If. Fndnun
.of
Hoiu University Lsw
$cboot : nd ' Iesf- sr,
^brauou
of tbe Unittmity-
of Lqrigvit.Law $droo[' .
Goftsy C. llazard ft.;
an emerifiu prcfessor at
'tbe
Univcru of
.Fenqgyl-
vai+Iw Sc,hool and .the
Hsfi
nr+
Co[eg Shool f
Law in San FTancirco,
$'ent frrthcr; IIc aid Mv
Cffeq' shorld not, h've
participated
fu any ca in.
volving a firnr rhat had
bgen s
golce
of refertl
fees for his wifs.:
However, Bruce Lde-
witq pmfesr
of law at
Qpqueme,Univensity,
srid
h did not think Mtsf-
fry was udr ari otis-
ton to tell litigants about
the referral fees.
In three letters to The
Inqurer in March and
April, Rassias, of the Beas-
ley Firrn, strongly defend-
ed McCaffery and Rapa-
port.
He said tle new*pa-
per had engaged in a
"slan-
derous canrpaign" to pry
into
"fs.
fiapaprfs legiti-
mate
'and
proper
legal
businesg relationships
'#ith
her colleagueo.l
.
Rssiao, has trffied'tltt in
2A0L the year nspqport
rnadpendffnd
$retreqi
l, ted to tn,+gil'''
fee rho
'
was; on unpeid:
Ieve Tm ths urt Thfft
,tlitt
cci$ed
wiftiwr
'hd
:'ftlom
for itg
lFaS
sh.,lrs a'paid a$er
it hr htsbsnd Supror
practicin$
ta,
,
.
Case ID: 140203044
fissfas lso'argro{ ln
ths lr r{ letfttr Th
InqurT, that thglr ws E
-contltlng
nle' abbut
. crxtrt aidr'pr:ctiqing bw.
llist rtid thi rrlc
stipthted thpt it roup b
Sapaporfr hubnd ag her
diat:ilDclior, and not
,thc
cicf
jurtbe,
to dbside
wbethcr h
'oorld
prac-
tico ht
*
if rsft$l
f.lts
uren thc p|ptiae
of.law-
Rain csltrt rhis
'the
on rud only rulc' on
point
". .
In tc runt inrvi,
Ctitlc ald rclhner oD
,tltlr
rulc would rstc
$r
tionr undcr thc cttp Etlr-
im Act
- l'Obrlourlyr
Uro Rp-
port wrr nro*lg thcc
csc out of Scrtu' of'
Ttr, and *hcacrnr rhc r+
ccivad r nfral f, it's
meriirl
proprtr,' Caitillc
rld.
-.Ilut
r$d tpprr
to bc
Juil
*
dvcn
thot,
frelt
-
r vlohtlon of the
Ethlsr rtt.'
onlrcl
Cn H. lcCoy
ol lt9-t$a.l,2l or
frfl{:coyicrpfl{ yrrwr.curr.
tl lllrw tlr f*rtlrt
,{iCrilOfttlr(ry
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INOUIRER EXCLUSIVE
hrobeof
mhhwfrrms
nnsylvada Justlce Seamus
McCaffery. Authorities seek
information from law firms on
referral fees and campaign
donations. roM GRALTsH / Stan
The Supreme Court
justice
and fees
paid
to
his wife are the subject
of federal subpoena^s.
By Ctnig R ll{c0oy
INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
In the ongoing federal investi-
gation
of Sate Supreme Court
Justice Seamus P. Mcaffery
pmsecutons
have seryed zubpoe-
nas on numerous law frms,
seeking detailed infomation
about referal fees
paid
to Mc-
Caffeds wife.
Vetemn defense lawyer John
\il. Moris, who represents one
of the eight frrms refemed cases
by McCaffe4/s wife, Lise Rapa-
port,
said his client turned over
records liast montth.
The federal
grand
jury
subpoe-
nas to law frrms.also dernanded
information about campaign do-
nations to McCaffery according
to Morris and Charles E.
Schmidt Jr., a top attorney n'ith
See ]trClffiT on 418
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t,
. was
the
in
ecom-
at least oe
consider-
an auto,
to identi-
over to
cochair of
did dis-
over a of years
a dient
dis-
law-
Phila.
f:
to li
forfri intervffi
with TIre In- 2oA3;,
this ye
Caffery and
one of the lawyer'
cases by Rapa. preme
federal
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N THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS
FTRST JUDICIAL DISTRTCT OF PENNSYLVANIA
CIVIL TRIAL DIVISION
INTERTRUST GCN, LP., et al.
VS.
ocroBER TERM, 2013
INTERSTATE GENERAL
MEDIA, LLC, et al. NO.00654
NTERTRUST GCN, LP, ntertrust
GCN GP, LLC, general partner,
et al.
ocroBER TERM, 2013
vs.
INTERSTATE GENERAL MED]A, LLC NO. 001681
November 15, 2073
Room 630,
Philadelphia,
City Hall
Pennsylvania
BEFORE: THE HONORABLE PATR]CIA McINERNEY, J
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From : Bob Hall
[mailto:
rha I I l30(comcast. net]
Senft Mon3l4l20L3 6:35 AM
To: Marimow, William
Subject:
Good Morning;
I will tell you I am disappointed in the story. Placed on front page? We do not say the fees are routine and
proper (although we know they are) but quote there attorney (which both of us knows what that sounds
like to the reader). That was the statement you and I talked about yesterday to be sure we told readers..
And we even state how the cases turned out to make it appear improper. They only drew scrutiny after
we raised the issue and a lot depends on how we asked the question.
When we know that we have a delicate situation, we should have been overly sure that the story would
be read fairly.
lwillcallyou late this afternoon.
Bob
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