The Ungrateful Tattletale
Can you imagine rolling on your parents in an attempt to get out of a drug conviction? What if your parents were both attorneys? According to the Boston Globe, one kid attempted to throw his cool sounding parents right under the bus:
Two prominent attorneys are under police scrutiny after their son, arrested on charges he was dealing marijuana from home, told investigators his parents knew what he was doing. Police found a small smoking pipe, scale and baggies in their bedroom.Jonathon Cook, 20, said his stepfather, Suffolk University law professor Timothy Wilton, helped him build a place to grow marijuana in exchange for some of the profits and also smoked it in the house, according to a police report.
He said that his mother, Kathy Jo Cook — the former president of the Women’s Bar Association of Massachusetts — also knew about the drug activity and frequently complained that her husband’s smoking left the house smelling like marijuana, authorities said.
Let me get this straight. Instead of beating you like a red-headed step child your stepdad actually helps you grow weed. Your mom isn’t happy about it but allows it to continue. And you — snot-nosed 20-year-old asshole that you are — rat them out for it? What kind of world are we living in?
His parents deny all of the allegations.
It is of course entirely possible that Jonathon Cook simply made this all up, which makes him a bad son and a terrible liar.
It’s not like this kid has a lot of credibility:
Jonathon Cook, who has a criminal record dating back to when he was 13, was ordered held on $50,000 bail on drug and weapons charges.George Keches, an attorney who worked with Kathy Jo Cook for 12 years, called the son’s allegations “absurd.”
“I know when she was here, she did everything in the world to help her son, from a mental health perspective. I know he was a troubled young man,” Keches said.
And his attempts to implicate his mom sound like he’s been watching a few too many Steven Soderbergh movies:
On July 31, Cook was shot in the hand during a home invasion that police believe was tied to the drug operation. He told police after his arrest that he waited 30 minutes to call police because his mother ordered him and his stepfather to get rid of the marijuana plants.He described his mother as “having a fit” and said “they took the five plants out of the closet and burnt them in the fire pit in the back yard,” the police report said.
Was that before or after George Clooney showed up to fix the situation?
Whether Cook the younger is making it all up or just snitching on his parents, the son of two lawyers should know better than to run his mouth off to the police.
Mass. man: Lawyer parents knew I was drug dealer [AP]
Natick man says parents knew of his drug business [Boston Globe]
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dummy
The twins would never rat me out over my use of coke.
Legalize!
QUINN REMAINS ... high as a kite
I disagree with the comments in the article, if the allegations are ture. If the parents were abdicating their parental responsiblities by letting their kid grow and deal marijuana from the house, then they were setting him up for a life of failure and misery. I believe they deserve the strongest opprobimum for their conduct, not classification as "cool parents". And when you set you son up to be a loser in life, don't be surprised or cry when he "tells on you".
This is sad. The guy is 20; he's old enough to take responsibility for his choices.
But he has problems with the law going back to when he was 13. That's a pretty good indication that his parents bear some fault for how this guy turned out. It doesn't matter that his mother was helping him. The damage she did to him happened well before that.
Elie, what part of it makes it a terrible lie? The part about it being (maybe) untrue?
If it is a lie, it sounds plausible. I don't understand your criterion.
I thought all law professors grew their own. I know they all smoke.
Perhaps if he had rolled more FOR his parents he wouldn't have had to roll ON them.
If you are 20 years old and selling drugs, and have shotguns and knifes, then man up and shut the f. up when the cops arrive. There is no excuse to go shooting off your mouth ever. And to rat out your own mother? Even if you mother deserves it, you do not rat out your own mother. What in the world is this guy thinking?
When arrest don't say anything other than name, address and age. How stupid can you be? But once again a guy selling drugs and living at home with his parents. Obviously a real smooth dude.
There is a far more important question here: WHY ARE WE PUNISHING PEOPLE FOR SELLING MARIJUANA?
I don't blame parents for kids that start getting arrested at 13. If you are white and privileged and still getting arrested at 13 that means you are a screw up who is giving the cops attitude. The kid is pretty obviously mentally ill. What a shame. With influential parents even a dumb ass could get a job somewhere in the court system and do no work and retire years from now with a pretty good pension. But he could not handle that.
Wow, the things I would do to THAT 20 year old. More pics please.
I suppose that I should know the answer to this question, but is Suffolk University Law School accredited by the American Bar Association?
Suffolk Law School is the Bunker Hill Community College of all law schools in Boston.
14, Suffolk is an online school not eligible for ABA accreditation. However, it is accredited by the State Bar of Massachusetts, so rising 2L's take the 'baby bar' and are then eligible to keep studying if they pass; upon graduation, they can sit for the bar exam and may be able to eventually get into other jurisdictions by reciprocity.
13 = Lat.
He's kinda hot in a rough trade, Levi Johnston sort of way...
No need for bs responses. Suffolk is a pretty good school. Is it Harvard? No. But a pretty good school in Massachusetts.
Attempting to destroy your own mother's reputation is low, even for a crazy person. Is this guy a psychopath? How can you get into this much trouble while on house arrest?
And, assuming he is nuts, what kind of fact checking did the prosecutor do before coming out with this stuff in open court? Is there absolute immunity there, or can he be sued for recklessness? A bar complaint perhaps? The Mom has quite a bit of juice in Mass.
5,
Clearly you were able to find a thesaurus (opprobimum, really?!), though not a dictionary (it’s opprobrium), nor any common sense. Your contention that growing marijuana sets one up for “a life of failure and misery,” is completely unsupportable. Let’s just hope your comment was mere misplaced hyperbole rather than, as I suspect, evidence of your rampant idiocy.
Oh 19.... you're going to need thicker skin to read these comments.
He may be a tattletale, but the parents certainly aren't credible denying any knowledge of a growing room in their house. Pretty hard to miss that and all the other signs. Of course, no real surprise that Elie comes to the defense of yet another Harvard loser.
I learned it by watching you!
this guy is an asshole. even if he's telling the truth, he should have just taken one for the team. never go against the family son.
No doubt 23 - as if mom and dad wouldn't notice the huge spike in the electric bill.
19- Suffolk Law is not in the top 100 or 200 law schools. It is ranked in the abyss called Tier 4. That is the worst of the worst and not "pretty good".
I'm assuming the parents did not post his bail.
19=soon to be unemployed non lawyer from TTT
This is further proof that we need to outlaw divorce in order to preserve the sanctity of marriage and the dysfunction of families. The bible forbids divorce and it is not a constitutionally protected right.
24 won the thread.
Yea! More tax dollars wasted on potheads. Legalize it already and let's put the energy toward real problems.
Big deal. I did coke with a torts professor once.
GULC2L
24 for the win
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Really, what do you expect from the children of attorneys?
Avon and Stringer need to get at this kid. The game is to be sold, not told.
All you Suffolk haters need to quit crying over the fact that Suffolk rejected you and you ended up at the New England School of Law (night program). Also, eat crap.
This post is wrong. Suffolk is on Long Island.
Mystal you are too fat. Lose weight.
I think you Suffolk haters are overlooking the fact that, with a Suffolk JD, you can be a paralegal for biglaw: http://abovethelaw.com/2009/07/cant_find_work_paralegal_for_weil.php
I went to SMU so I do not feel bad about this.
Hi - I'm looking for a place where lawyers who have lost their jobs can post online all day and bash Suffolk law school to compensate for the ego shot I've taken for having been tossed out in the cold like a complete loser. Is this the right place? Thanks.
This is slightly off topic but can anyone give me some good advice on how to find a good pot dealer? My friends are pretty square and I'm not interested in driving around the ghetto looking for a street dealer. I'm looking for the good stuff. Thanks.
Hi - I'm looking for a place where lawyers who have lost their jobs can post online all day and bash Suffolk law school to compensate for the ego shot I've taken for having been tossed out in the cold like a complete loser. Is this the right place? Thanks.
Let's not go pretending that Suffolk law scam professors are respected (or "prominent" if you prefer) members of the legal community. You don't have to go to NESL to realize that.
Sincerely - another Harvard grad
Do you think Kash would date a Suffolk Law grad? I went to Hofstra, but that's kind of the same thing.
Didn't Harvard produce Kiwi C? Also, Charles Nesson, esteemd proferssor of Evidence, smokes more pot than all of Amsterdam. I can't stand Harvard grads and neither can anyone else, you pathetic worms.
Suffolk actually produces some really good lawyers that are on par with those that come from so-called elite law schools. There are also plenty of partners and associates that work at the big firms who graduated from Suffolk. Some of the commenters are just plain ignorant about the school (#15, #16, #41). I suggest they get their facts right before they post next time. It's a poor reflection of their legal skills if they can't even get the facts right.
legalize NOW
Mystal, you are obese. Lose weight. I can hear you sweating from midtown.
Goddam Hippies.
Suffolk's trial team (led by Wilton) > Yale's.
http://www.law.suffolk.edu/about/news/newsarticle.cfm?ID=331
Feb 24, 2009
National Trial Team Wins Eighth Straight Regional Tournament
The Suffolk University Law School National Trial Team won its eighth straight New England Regional Championship in the American College of Trial Lawyers National Trial Competition (NTC), hosted this year at Sargent Hall.
Third-year day student Gail Ryan and fourth-year evening student John Martin beat teams from Franklin Pierce Law Center, Vermont Law School, Yale Law School and Quinnipiac University School of Law on their way to defeating Yale Law once more in the final round.
Second-year day students Patrick Driscoll and Katie Bagdis and third-year day student Gretchen Sherwood, meantime, prevailed over teams from Western New England College School of Law, New England School of Law, Roger Williams University Law School and the other team from New England before defeating Franklin Pierce Law Center in the finals. Driscoll also won the competition’s Best Advocate Award.
This marks the eighth consecutive trip to the national championships for Suffolk Law, a record surpassed by only one other law school in the nation. This is also the second time in four years that the two Suffolk Law teams have swept the NTC regionals. The five teammates will now travel to San Antonio, Texas, in March to compete in the national competition.
The Suffolk Law National Trial Team is coached by Professor Tim Wilton, as well as alumni coaches Jason Drori JD ’05, Erin Harris JD ’06 and Paul Caruso JD ’07.
“The Suffolk Law National Trial Team has developed the most effective law student trial advocacy training program in New England,” said Wilton. “Our success is due to the National Trial Team alumni, themselves all New England regional champions, who come back every year to coach and to shape the program, and to the incredibly dedicated students whose talent and hard work inspire their coaches.”
Suffolk Law School is the Bunker Hill Community College of all law schools in Boston.
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54 - your mom is the bunker hill community college of all prostitutes.
Wow. Suffolk is a Tier *3* school and their evening program was recently ranked 13th in the country. (US News) Glad you all have your facts straight.
They also have an excellent trial team, as a previous poster noted.
54- my mom is the Suffolk Law of all prostitutes. She get's screwed over and over again and left broke, beaten, toothless and addicted- not unlike Suffolk Law Grads.
Given that the apple does not fall far from the tree, I think #54's Mom probably could not have gotten into Bunker Hill Community College.
Suffolk is Tier 4:http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-law-schools
Also, ranking 13th in the night program is like winning runner up in the Bea Arthur beauty pageant.
Pretty sure that picture is of Tony Almeida from 24. Just sayin'.
So here's the thing, Suffolk gets a really bad, only about 25% of which is actually deserved. Admittedly I'm a grad, and proud of that actually. The vast majority of my professors were Harvard grads and I got a great legal education even if not a great legal job.
All of that said, as much I liked and respected Wilton (I've heard he was a VERY hard grader for the other half of my section's Con. Law class) but, much like several other professors I had there, would not be the least bit shocked to learn they were toking up on a regular basis. Either way, whether it's true or not, the kid is a prick and should be hung out to dry. Schmuck.
54- my mom is the Suffolk Law of all prostitutes. She get's screwed over and over again and left broke, beaten, toothless and addicted- not unlike Suffolk Law Grads.
UVA is the Harvard of the MidAtlantic.
As first year associate Suffolk Law grad, I suggest the Suffolk haters go back to the sad little hole they crawled out of and get back to their doc. review. I certainly won't concern myself with my school's prestige ranking while I am driving home to my wonderful wife, two great little kids and our 3000 sq. ft. house with a 1 acre yard in the Boston area. I also won't be worrying about where you went to law school when I am out on my boat in RI this weekend. Suck it, bitches.
Oh, and Wilton's Con Law class was excellent.
Since you all seem to be so caught up in rankings:
"Suffolk is ranked annually in several lists of top law schools in the United States, including the U.S. News and Princeton Review, and other rankings. The school has been ranked in the third or fourth tier overall in the past two years.[17] In 2009, U.S. News ranked Suffolk 13th overall in the United States for its evening program.[18] In 2009 U.S. News ranked Suffolk 20th in the United States for its legal clinics, 13th for its Alternative Dispute Resolution Program, and 17th for its Legal Writing above Harvard and BU.[7] The 2009 edition of Judging the Law Schools ranked Suffolk 35th overall in the United States ahead of Cornell Law School based upon ABA data.[19] In the 2004 edition of The Best 117 Law Schools, Princeton Review ranked Suffolk 5th in the United States in "most competitive students."[20] In 2008 National Jurist ranked Suffolk in the top sixty law schools in the country for public interest law.[21]"
17. Law Schools List
18. Wall Street Journal (accessed April 24, 2009)
19. 2009 edition of Judging the Law Schools
20. The Best 117 Law SchoolsBy Eric Owens, Princeton Review (Firm) 2005, pg. 55
21. Suffolk Law Public Interest Award from National Jurist[2] (accessed November 24, 2008)
67 = Underacheiving Trust Fund Baby
So let me get this straight: a legal professor and a former president of the Women's Bar are implicated in a drug production and trafficking plot, and no thinks twice? No one thinks that maybe, just maybe, such activities are a disgrace to the profession? They're just cool parents, and it's "just pot."
God, I picked the wrong job - I can't even call it a profession with a straight face anymore.
Yes 70, IT'S JUST POT.
@69,
No trust fund. Just a hell of a lot less debt than most law grads and a good job. It can be done.
-67
I graduated from Harvard Law School and am now the king of Brockton. Also, Suffolk is higher ranked than Princeton. And eat crap.
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Hey 67, how good a job can you have if you're reading/responding to comments on ATL?
If I were you, I'd worry about layoffs when I don't meet my billable hour requirements because I'm too busy on FB. Or, I'd worry about that big scandal that will happen when it comes out that you're padding your billing by including ATL time.
Kids in Brockton never rat out their parents.
This guy is the answer to the trivia question: Who do the rapists and child molesters look down on in jail?
The Real Rankings:
Guatemalan 7th grade education > Bunker Hill Community College > Suffolk Law School > New England Law School > Southern New England School of Law > ITT Certificate > Western New England School of Law > Massachusetts School of Law > New England Tractor Trailer Training School > Northeastern School of Law.
That is all.
A few points to refute 67/72:
Suffolk is massively expensive - thw web page sports a $61,000 student budget/year. Financial aid is nonexistent.
A 3000 square foot house on one acre anywhere within 40 miles of Boston, even in a small cul-de-sac in a crap town (Brockton/Taunton/Revere/etc) is north of $600k, even these days. You can double that figure (at least) for the best towns (Weston/Concord/Dover/Hamilton/etc). Waaaay beyond the means of a first year associate, even w/o student loans. In other words, unless your wife is a banker or you are independently wealthy, I call bullshit, anonymous website blogger.
You are massively overstating the price of homes in 40 mile away suburbs. But an attorney a few years out still will not be buying any of them. But then again, a education major a few years out will not be buying them either. The different is the school district paid for the education masters.
@80,
I am in my 30's. I worked before and during law school. I live about 30 miles from Boston. My current house wasn't my first house. It's possible. Get over it.
67/72
67/72/82 - Assuming everything you say is 100% true, then nice job trying to use the exception to prove the rule. I am sure that most Suffolk law grads are in the same finacial position as you are.
Hey look, it's a Hofstra Law grad who won the lottery. I guess everyone who graduates from Hofstra is well off too!
You're an idiot.
68 = Timothy Wilton
68 = Timothy Wilton
@83
1/3 (that's 600+) of Suffolk's students are part-time, i.e., likely had jobs before law school and are currently working. He's hardly the exception.
@86 - So you are saying that they are as well of as 82 also (which was my point)? I am not sure where they are working during law school where they are earning in excess of $60K (post tax) to cover law school tuition and costs, plus food and other expenses, while they attend law school and then get jobs afterwards that earn them six figures. I would be VERY interested to find out what the average income for a Suffolk Law graduate is.
Thus far, the logic advanced by the Suffolk Law defenders is VERY poor. You're not helping your cause, nor the prestige of your law school.
You should listen to the old adage, "Better to be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt." Unfortunately, many Suffolk Law grads have chosen to do the latter.
80: If $600k is "Waaaay beyond the means of a first year associate, even w/o student loans," then how did I buy one for $650k with $90k in student loans as a first year associate and my wife's a stay at home mom?
- not 67
Stick with the this kid's ID, will ya? Ths kid is too typical of today's "All About Me, and Only Me. " youth. He clearly feels no connection to anyone.
I drove a friend and her 12 year old across 14th Street last night. The streets were swarming with people. The 12 year old, who plays a lot of pc war games, sat in the back seat "finger shooting" at all the people who crossed in front of us, or tried to. A private school kid, he was swearing and cursing under his breath, and counting bodies, "You're dead Chink." "There you go you Dumb Bitches!"Just cause your pushing a stroller don't mean shit, I know you got bombs strapped to those kids, BAM! Sometimes he just spray the crowd. By the time we got to ninth avenue and turned south, he bragged, " I took out about five hundred of those losers." He then took a swig of soda and burped, His mother said, "Oh David, please don't burp like that." Welcome to the new age of children from hell.
Go figure. A spoiled brat son of two self-centered attorneys (redundant) is a jerk. That about describes half the students in law school. They only got in and jobs because mommy and daddy attorney spoiled them.
@90
And they spoil brat law students turned out to be self-centered jerks also.
Which former Harvard Law professor saw his Supreme Court nomination torpedoed over his having brought marijuana to a party hosted by another HLS professor? (Hint: not Nesson).
At least one Suffolk grad is now a US District Judge for the District of Columbia -- Hon. Richard J. Leon.
http://en.wikipedia.com/wiki/Douglas_H._Ginsburg#U.S._Supreme_Court_nomination
Please don't squabble about law schools! Dive Deep guys , the real issue here is the soullessness of today's
young.
No. The real issue here is that this country's retarded and Draconian drug laws have needlessly ruined the lives and careers of two upstanding and reputable lawyers (and their stupid kid too).
#96, Yes, that is a serious legal issue. But the soullessness, is the more serious, baseline issue, when it comes to ruining and taking lives.
@87 - 1) I would say at least 15% of my class at Suffolk work at BigLaw firms in Boston, earning six figures while in law school, as "technical specialists." These people have usually masters degrees, if not PhDs, and the firms they work for pay for law school and books. They walk out with no debt at all.
2) I also know several people that aren't technical specialists that have their law school paid for by the firm they work for in exchange for some indentured servitude such as 2 years as an associate. There are tons of law firms in Boston and this isn't an uncommon thing.
Please, before you go embarrassing yourself on ATL with how little you know about Suffolk and the Boston legal community, please, heed your own advice and STFU.
-86
@87, also, there are two night programs in Boston. No disrespect to NESL, but Suffolk is the better choice and the choice of technical specialists. These are people with ivy league PhDs. They are offered six figure salaries and law school for free. Who wouldn't take that?
- also 86.
Too bad the other 85% are mouth-breathers.
The average salary for members of the class of 2008 at Suffolk was $74,227.00. Obviously, that figure is nowhere near that for this year's class, but a high number of unemployed members of the class of 2009 is not unique to Suffolk.
Who cares how much kids at Suffolk make? It's a T4 school that is a punch-line in Boston and hands out law degrees to any idiot from UMass who got a 155 on his LSAT. The really pathetic thing is the kids who went Ivy undergrad and ended up at Suffolk. I doubt there are many of them, but they must feel like such a$$holes.
-- BC Law BigFirm
Yet further proof of just how insufferable BC kids are.
Not to get off topic, but someone should check out Mother Cook's background. Before suffolk. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
I find that figure on average salary suspect, unless a high number of them were night students who already had excellent jobs and were going to law school to up their salary, i.e. police officers, court officials, etc.
There is no way the average salary for a 2008 Suffolk Grad. who started employment fresh is over 70.
@ 102 appears that BCBigLaw is suffering the effects of a Small something else.
I have no idea what Ivy League undergrads feel about stepping down to Suffolk, but it probably is akin to the feeling about stepping down to BC -- save for the shame of being associated with an institution run by pedophiles.