When the financial council of the Boston Diocese retracted the sex abuse settlement, the typical media response has been that this will be a further black mark for Cardinal Law. While the cardinal may not be winning any popularity contests, we forget that most hate shyster lawyers more. Here's a sample from Howie Carr:
It's one thing to mess around with altar boys, or allow your pervert priests to, but never, ever screw around with an ambulance chaser.Or this from Joe Fitzgerald:Mitchell Garabedian has 10 million reasons to be angry with His Eminence, and all of them have George Washington's picture on them. And so this morning, unless he and his red hat fled under the cover of darkness, the ``embattled'' Bernard Cardinal Law will face the music or, at least, Garabedian.
Whenever someone says, ``It's not the money, it's the principle,'' watch for reaction to the money. When he learned his clients might not receive all of an anticipated $30 million windfall, attorney Mitchell Garabedian responded by calling Law ``a despicable human being.''Posted by Bob at May 12, 2002 07:56 PMNot about the money? Please.