Poly Prep officials – while maintaining that they would like a “fair resolution” to a lawsuit filed by dozens of former students who say administrators covered up decades of sexual abuse – have also signaled that they have the legal wherewithal to defend the school should the case go to trial, writes Michael O’Keeffe for the Daily News.

On Friday school officials retained Mary Jo White – who was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1993 to 2002. White oversaw the prosecution of “Ramzi Yousef and others” convicted  in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Continue reading »