The attorney being sued by the First Judicial District for alleged legal malpractice on a family courthouse deal said in an answer filed Tuesday that former state Senator Vincent J. Fumo blocked court leaders from considering the Philadelphia Inquirer ‘s building as the courthouse site “because he was upset with the newspaper’s coverage of him.”
Fumo, who is now serving time in federal prison for convictions related to political corruption, unilaterally amended the state capital budget to require that the new courthouse could only be funded by the state at 15th and Arch streets in downtown Philadelphia, Jeffrey B. Rotwitt’s attorneys said in an answer to First Judicial District v. Rotwitt . The identical language was used in an answer for Rotwitt’s corporate entity, also filed Tuesday.
