.Florio occasionally writes a good, insightful, informative piece. This is not one of them.
Quite often, too often, he stirs the well-known stuff to create dissention in the ranks and controversy. This is such a piece, founded on less than gossip to bring readership and revenue to Florio.
I seem to recall that he was a formerly a lawyer; what his area of practice was I don't really care to know but would guess he was one of those guys who goes around telling would-be clients "You can sue!" and trying to make a case out of it. That's because he still seems to still be doing essentially the same thing.