In the Matter of Morrissey

By the Court.

Francis X. Morrissey has been a judge of the Municipal Court of the City of Boston since 1958. On May 17,1973, there appeared in a Boston newspaper a news article containing allegations of possible improper conduct by Judge Morrissey. Those allegations arose principally from the fact that Judge Morrissey, in September of 1967, received and deposited to his account a check in the amount of $4,000 drawn by the Baltimore Paint and Chemical Corporation (Baltimore Paint), a corporation controlled by one Edward Krock. Inscribed on that check was the notation “Legal fees.” In a…