A law firm that employed Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe is being paid handsomely to fight victims of alleged sexual abuse in schools, on behalf of a school system that the girls say failed to protect them.
In one case the Hunton Andrews Kurth law firm, where McAuliffe served as a senior adviser from 2019 until recently, is battling a young woman who says that she was repeatedly raped on her Fairfax County middle school campus as a 12-year old and that she was slashed with a knife, burned with a lighter, anally penetrated, and gang raped.
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If the power of a school bureaucracy were personified, it might take the form of Hunton Andrews Kurth, a law firm that has represented school districts in these types of situations ever since its predecessor firm, Hunton & Williams, fought to preserve school segregation in a case that – grouped with several others on appeal – became the 1954 landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board.
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From 2014 to 2018, the Fairfax school system paid Hunton some half a million dollars a year. In October 2019, it appointed McAuliffe – who is not a lawyer – as a senior advisor for cybersecurity. FCPS’s payments to Hunton ballooned to about $4.4 million in calendar year 2019, $2.5 million in 2020, and $3 million so far in 2021.
In October 2020, FCPS data was held for ransom by foreign hackers, and Hunton was paid at least $250,000 to handle the situation.
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Hunton Williams in the DoS FOIA database from 2011: In February, internal emails between cybersecurity company HBGary and law firm Hunton and Williams, representing Bank of America, discussed the prospect of infecting computers affiliated with Anonymous, the hacker group affiliated with WikiLeaks….. The bank-related email exchanges mentioned a Georgia-based company called Endgames Solutions and included promotional materials advertising Computer Network Attack or Computer Network Exploitation as part of its Maui suite of software. A public relations specialist hired by Endgames Solutions declined to discuss the matter.
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Anon wonders about the coincidence re: "hackers" of the Fairfax County School System in 2020 and the 2011 Hunton Andrews Kurth predecesor company, colluding (?) about infecting Anonymous computers. I'm sure the hacking capability became much more sophisticated over the years, especially w/McAuliffe as senior advisor for cybersecurity. Quite the wabbit hole.