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settled out of court in June 2005, agreeing to pay $ 12 million to the
Children's Health Forum. The agency agreed to use the money for lead paint abatement efforts and education campaigns. Lynch has since been criticized for accepting $ 4,250 in contributions from DuPont lawyers and lobbyists, and
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his opponent in the 2006 elections filed a complaint with the Rhode Island Ethics
Commission. Lynch has denied that the donations were related to the lawsuit, and a lawyer for DuPont who accounted (with his wife) for $ 2,500 of the donations called the complaint "rubbish."
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percent of whatever damages the company won. Critics have charged that this kind of relationship between law firm and government is improper because the law firms stand to benefit from a guilty verdict.
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that claimed 103 lives in the 1950s. The criminal investigation led to the sentencing of Daniel
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Lynch has also been criticized for the arrangement his office made with the law firm Motley Rice, which prosecuted the case. The firm agreed to cover the costs of the case in return for 16
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