NEW YORK
New York Daily News
BY MICHAEL O’KEEFFE
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The lawyers hired by Yeshiva University in January 2013 to investigate allegations that the Washington Heights school had covered up decades of sexual abuse didn’t leave any stone unturned.
The investigators spent 6,300 hours on the case, interviewing more than 145 people, including victims and school employees accused of sexual abuse. They reviewed millions of emails and thousands of pages of documents, including personnel records, legal files and board meeting minutes.
The investigation was led by Karen Patton Seymour, the former chief of the criminal division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, now a partner at Sullivan & Cromwell, the Manhattan white-shoe law firm with offices across the globe. Seymour and S&C brought in Lisa Friel and her security firm, T&M Protection Resources, to assist with the probe.
Friel assumed an even bigger stage on Monday, when embattled NFL commissioner Roger Goodell announced that he had hired the former chief of the Manhattan district attorney’s sex crimes unit to advise him on criminal cases and violations of the league’s personal conduct policy.
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