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...Court Judge Ann Aldrich, young lawyer told her that he would be receiving a cut of his firm's fees in the White Motor Corp. bankruptcy case, which was under Aldrich's jurisdiction. The lawyer, Gino Battisti, had recently joined the firm of Climaco, Seminatore, Lefkowitz and Kaplan, and was the nephew of U.S. District Court Chief Judge Frank Battisti. Some months later the local press began to publish reports on the conduct of the blustery and powerful judge. Last March a federal grand jury started looking into charges that he had used his influence to benefit relatives...
What might have remained a more or less standard influence-peddling inquiry became more titillating last month when Judge Aldrich made public her role in the investigation. Remembering her Christmas-party chat, she decided to check out Nephew Gino with one of the Climaco partners, Shimon Kaplan. According to Aldrich, Kaplan told her that young Battisti had received $41,000 in bonuses, roughly 10% of all fees from cases "attributable" to his uncle. Stunned by Aldrich's assertion, Kaplan and the Climaco firm formally denied making any deals with Judge Battisti or his nephew...
Speaking for his partners, John Climaco accused Aldrich, 55, of attacking the firm because of a faltering romance with Kaplan, 42, who had been her student at a local law school. Kaplan said bluntly, "I believe Judge Aldrich's actions are an attempt to get even with me and my law firm for my refusing to marry her." In a letter to his colleagues he wrote...
...Kathleen Kaplan, who also works for the university as a campus recruiter, was crossing campus with her boyfriend. Thomas Themes, when the "large rotted tree" growing above a "busy pathway" fell on her, "completely without warning," according to her father, Louis Kaplan...
...Kaplan's walk cost her a fractured skull, four crushed vertebrae, and other internal injuries, as well as $13,000 in hospital and doctor bills...