A One-Man Term-Paper Mill Comes to Grief in Massachusetts

Judicial authorities in Massachusetts have suspended the law license of a man who sold term-paper-writing services on Craigslist, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported today. The lawyer, Damian R. Bonazzoli, was one of several ghostwriters who were exposed in a 2009 investigation of term-paper mills by CommonWealth magazine. Despite holding a $94,000-a-year job at the Massachusetts Appeals Court, Mr. Bonazzoli offered to write a 20-page paper on physician-assisted suicide for $300. In a flourish that might have impressed the Shadow Scholar, Mr. Bonazzoli reassured CommonWealth’s undercover reporter by saying, “Could your school take disciplinary action? Of course. But that’s quite different from a criminal prosecution.”