Edited Repost: Pedophile Priest Law Firm and State Street [View All]

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A Ropes & Gray partner has squatted on State Street's Board of Directors for more than 30 years.

A Ropes & Gray partner - and Robert Bork underling during the Saturday Night Massacre of Watergate - tried to pay off David A. Smith and Patrick Jorstad to go away quietly (the same modus operandi used to try to quiet up the priest abuse victims for decades):

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22william+l+patton%22+bork

http://www.google.com/search?as_q=patton+secret+settlement&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=shareholdersonline.org&as_rights=&safe=images

As the new Cardinal in Boston, Cardinal O'Malley, has said, forced confidentiality should no longer be a feature of how Church whistleblowers are treated: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&as_qdr=all&q=cardinal+o%27malley+priest+abuse+confidential+settlement

Ropes & Gray is to the Boston Archdiocese what BakerBotts is to Halliburton.

Ropes & Gray is to State Street what BakerBotts is to the Kennebunkport Kleptocrats.

Ropes & Gray is to State Street what Vinson & Elkins is to Enron.

For further evidence of how Ropes & Gray re-victimizes the victims, see how they handled Barbara Ruffino v. State Street Bank et al.

Mrs. Ruffino's husband had recently been ordained as an Episcopal priest. The chief of staff in the asset management division allegedly asked, leeringly, whether her husband now "did it with his collar on" when they had sex. See the Federal Judge's opinion, denying State Street's/Ropes & Gray's dismissal attempt: http://www.google.com/search?as_q=ruffino+opinion&num=10&hl=en&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=key+docs&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=shareholdersonline.org&as_rights=&safe=images

Finally, it may interest some to know that Ropes & Gray was also the law firm that protected a young Senator Kennedy during the Chappaquiddick matter: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ropes+gray+chappaquiddick

On the flip side of that coin, it was a Ropes & Gray partner who forced Nixon/Bork to commit the Saturday Night Massacre: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ropes+gray+eliot+richardson

The law firm is considered by many to be the most "prestigious" law firm in Boston: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=ropes+gray+prestigious

But as a Harvard Law School group recently brought to light, there is a difference between "prestige" and "ethics in the practice of law": http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22ropes+%26+gray%22+harvard+law+school

Those with inherited trust funds - whether in Kennebunkport or on Beacon Hill - should know the source of their inherited wealth, I think.

To some, Grandpoppy Prescott Bush was, no doubt, the kindest, gentlest man they ever knew: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescott_Bush