I wonder if Francis X. Morrissey, Jr., was any relation to this guy:
Whenever I think about [Ted] Kennedy and judges, I think about his support for Boston Municipal Court Judge Francis X. Morrissey. In September of 1965, President Johnson nominated Morrissey as a U. S. District Judge for Massachusetts. Teddy Kennedy was the Congressional sponsor of this turkey.
How bad was Morrissey? He was so bad that Bernard Segal, a spokesman for the American Bar Association, said of him: “From the standpoint of legal training, legal experience and legal ability, we have not had any case where these factors were so lacking - and I say so to my deep regret.” Massachusetts Chief Federal District Court Judge Charles Wyzanski said the “obvious fact” was that “the only discernible ground for the nomination of Judge Morrissey is his service to the Kennedy family.” And the former aide to President Kennedy, Theodore Sorensen, said that Morrissey was a “self-confessed pol” and a “political confidence man.”
Could be his son, but who knows?
That family has fallen a long way from it’s Oregon namesake — Astoria. Too much money will do that to you.
The indictee is definitely the son of the old boston kennedy pal and local judge (who died only last year).