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In deposition, Lynch defended DuPont pact as 'best deal'

BY MIKE STANTON
Journal Staff Writer

On Jan. 6, as the state's lead-paint trial entered its third month, lawyers for some of the nation's biggest paint companies gathered in the conference room of a Providence law firm to depose their nemesis, Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch.

For nearly 4 1/2 hours, the lawyers grilled Lynch about his decision to drop DuPont from the case, in return for DuPont's promise to donate $12.5 million to address childhood lead poisoning in Rhode Island.

The paint companies were challenging the agreement, announced in June 2005, because if they were found liable in the ongoing trial, they faced the possibility of having to pay more to clean up the damage with DuPont out of the case.

Motley Rice had been involved in hundreds of asbestos lawsuits and had recently joined the board of the center at Brigham and Women's, agreeing to donate $3 million.

At Lynch's request, DuPont agreed to donate $2.5 million to Brigham and Women's. DuPont now says that it was unaware of Motley Rice's pledge, and has notified the hospital that it does not want its donation to count toward the pledge... (Read More)


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