NEW JERSEY
The Star-Ledger

By Jason Grant/The Star-Ledger
on April 12, 2013

MORRIS TOWNSHIP — In June, attorney Gregory Gianforcaro held a news conference outside the Morris County Courthouse to announce his client, a victim of sexual abuse in the 1980s at the Delbarton School, wanted to join a growing chorus of men speaking out about violations they claim went on secretly for years at the school.

Gianforcaro said he was filing a lawsuit on his client’s behalf, seeking to free him from a confidentiality clause in a settlement agreement his client had signed with Delbarton at age 19 in lieu of suing the all-boys Catholic school.

And at some point that afternoon, Gianforcaro also mentioned, according to a Star-Ledger article published the next day, that the 1988 settlement paid his client seven figures.

That utterance of seven figures, Delbarton’s lawyer said today, meant Gianforcaro himself had knowingly…