The ex-wife of former Bush administration lawyer John Michael Farren has been awarded $28.6 million in damages by a Connecticut jury who found him liable for beating her nearly to death at their New Canaan mansion in 2010.
The verdict came in Mary Margaret Farren’s lawsuit against her ex-husband, a White House lawyer for President George W. Bush and general counsel for Xerox Corp. Farren was liable for assault and battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress, Stamford Superior Court jurors found Tuesday. The attack allegedly occurred after Mary Farren, who is also a lawyer, informed her husband she was filing for divorce.
