Appellate Law Clerk Is Out of a Job After Ghostwriting Claim
A senior staff attorney with the Massachusetts Appeals Court is out of a job after a magazine article accused him of offering to sell a term paper.
The lawyer, Damian Bonazzoli, “no longer works at the court” after an investigation of the matter, according to a statement issued by court spokeswoman Joan Kenney. The Docket Blog of Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly reported on the development, also noted by Legal Blog Watch.
An undercover journalist researching the “shadowy underworld” of ghostwritten term papers said Bonazzoli offered to write a term paper on physician-assisted suicide for $300. Bonazzoli was one of 62 people who advertised on Craiglist and offered a price quote when contacted, according to the journalist’s article in CommonWealth.
But Bonazzoli denied wrongdoing in a statement to Lawyers Weekly. “I am not in the business of selling term papers,” he said. “I have never authored a term paper for anyone. I have never received any money from anyone for any academic service.”
