Brett Kavanaugh graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1983, a school notorious for abiding by culture of omerta
Vicious bullies that threw kids into trash cans, throwing the coolest teenage drinking parties in town, and covering up alleged sexual abuse scandals are all just fleeting glimpses inside Judge Brett Kavanaugh's high school.
Georgetown Preparatory School is a school with an esteemed reputation in the D.C. area with alums like Trump-appointed Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorusch and chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell.
But the all-boys Jesuit school's also notorious for its bullying and drinking culture, that's been largely kept quiet as students and alums swear to the omerta rule of silence.
What happens at Georgetown, stays at Georgetown, they say.
But following Christine Blasey's Ford allegations of sexual assault by Kavanaugh dating back to 1982 during his Supreme Court nomination, the judge and his former high school have been put under a microscope.
According to the accounts of former classmates, Kavanaugh ran with a gang of bullies at the school, where hazing was rampant.
Kavanaugh was described the over-excited sidekick of notorious school bully J.C. del Real, whose father was a lawyer in the Reagan administration.
He was so vicious in one instance in the fall of 1982, J.C. picked up a freshman and viciously threw him into a garbage can while his friends laughed.
'[Kavanaugh] had the attitude of "I'm the man, I'm a badass, and everybody else is kind of a loser. I do what I want. I get what I want,"' one alum recalled to Vanity Fair.
'He was more of a d*ck, for lack of a better word. I wish I had a more descriptive word. He was just a d*ck,' the alum added.
The omerta rule of silence kept the hazing, bullying and excessive drinking led by Georgetown Prep students silent. It also suppressed sexual abuse accusations by a student in 2002, who said a faculty priest inappropriately touched them. Kavanaugh pictured with classmate mark Judge above
The all-boys Jesuit high school in Bethesda boasts a wealthy, esteemed, and high-class education with alumni including Trump-appointed Supreme Court Judge Neil Gorusch, Kavanaugh, and chairman of the Federal Reserve Jerome Powell
One former classmate from the class of 1984 dismissed the Judge as 'kind of lame'.
'Kavanaugh never did anything to stop this physical and verbal abuse, but stood by and laughed at the victims. . . . Brett Kavanaugh would always laugh the loudest when it was in response to Mark Judge’s jokes and antics,' Paul Rendon, class of 1983, said in a declaration to Congress.
And it turns out Kavanaugh's friends he name-dropped in his nomination - Squi, P.J., Timmy, Tom, Tobin and Mark Judge, were all a part of the gang.
The hazing at the school was so bad that in 1990 four boys were expelled for a hazing practice known as 'butting' where a student pulls down his pants and square his bottom into the face of a peer'. One of the boys father's disputed the punishment saying the school knew the practice was 'widespread'.
Drinking culture was also huge and the Georgetown Prep boys were touted as the 'pinnacle of teenage society' and all the girls wanted to go to their parties.
The Georgetown Prep boys had vulgar nicknames for the all-girl schools they'd invite to their get togethers.
The Stone Ridge girls were called Stone Fridge because they'd stop hooking up just short of sex.
Immaculata was called Ejaculata because 'they might go all the way'.
Visitation were called the 'Visi Girls' and Holton-Arms girls were once described as 'the home of the most worthless excuses for human females', according to Mark Judge's underground newspaper. Blasey Ford notably attended Holton-Arms.
Parties consisted of getting trashed and hooking up.
Judge once said; 'If you could breathe and walk at the same time, you could hook up with someone'.
And girls wanted to attend the parties to hang out with what was considered the coolest group of guys in town.
'I wanted to go to those parties, and I wanted that group of guys to like me. I am complicit in that,' a National Cathedral School alum said.
She recalled one party where she sat on the stairs and giggled as a boy tried to take her bra off in public.
Blasey Ford accused Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her at one of these parties.
The boys would have games for getting girls and reportedly laughed about violence against women.
Brett Kavanaugh pictured with his friends in his high school yearbook. According to former classmates, Kavanaugh was a bully who laughed when underclassmen were teased
'Kavanaugh never did anything to stop this physical and verbal abuse, but stood by and laughed at the victims. . . . ' Paul Rendon, class of 1983, said in a declaration to Congress. Kavanaugh pictured front center with the basketball team
The omerta rule of silence meant that what happens at Georgetown Prep, stays at Georgetown Prep. That rule also led alums to come to his defense after he was accused of sexual assault earlier this year
The Prep boys were also notorious for throwing drinking parties and trying to hook up with girls
Evidence found in Kavanaugh's yearbook during his nomination hearing shed light on how the teenage boys treated women.
On a shot of one group of boys a caption said 'Do these guys beat their wives?'
A quote from Judge's page says: 'Certain women should be struck regularly, like gongs'.
The phrase 'Renate Alumni' popped up multiple times referring to a girl from Stone Ridge that multiple guys bragged about sleeping with.
The drinking and hazing were always kept under wraps by the school.
The omerta rule went so far as silence the story of a sexual abuse attack by a faculty priest at the school.
The school suppressed the story of Eric Ruyak, who graduated in 2004 and was the son of a board member, who accused faculty priest Father Garrett Orr of sexual abuse.
Ruyak was gay and closeted while at the school. In the fall of 2002 he was allegedly sexually abused by Father Orr, the head of the program for 14 years, who was also his mentor.
He brought Ruyak to his office for a one-on-one rehearsal after Ruyak, then just 16, had landed the lead role in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, and placed his right hand down Ruyak's pants.
After other parents and staff later complained about Orr's 'lack of boundaries with students', the school quietly send him to a 'sex-offender sort of clinic' in St. Louis, according to prosecutors.
However the school says they have no records of any faculty members or parents raising concerns.
After he returned to the school Ruyak told the headmaster his story. The headmaster 'dismissed the allegations as untrue'.
Judge Kavanaugh and his former high school were put under a microscope following Christine Blasey's Ford allegations of sexual assault dating back to 1982
Despite the allegations against him, Prep alums and alums from its sister all-girl Catholic schools rallied to support him. He was sworn-in as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court on October 8, 2018
After the headmaster rejected his claims, Ruyak began to feel major backlash from the school starting with his teachers. The head of the local province of the Jesuit society also sent a letter to the Prep community defending Orr's reputation, adding he felt compelled to 'lay these rumors to rest'.
By his senior year, Ruyak says a smear campaign was launched against him.
One e-mail circulated the Prep community where an alumnus claimed 'Eric flat-out admitted that he made the whole thing up'.
The backlash drove Ruyak to lose a shocking amount of weight, to the point he was emaciated. He couldn't sleep and even contemplated suicide.
'I was the most reviled person in that community. Most of the community was like, "He attacked this priest. He’s obviously sick." I was called every name in the book: f****t, liar,' he said to the magazine.
Ruyak said he felt like he broke the golden rule of silence and was paying the price.
He was vindicated some two years later in April 2006 when a letter to the Prep community said the Jesuit province launched an investigation and determined Ruyak's allegations against Orr was 'substantially true', and he was subsequently barred from campus.
Another victim later came forward in 2010 recounting abuse that took place in 1989 when he was 14.
Eric Ruyak (left), who graduated in 2004, says he paid the price of breaking the omerta rule when he accused Father Garrett Orr (right) of sexually abusing him during his sophomore year. As a result teachers turned against him and alums launched a smear campaign against Ruyak
While Georgetown's Prep culture of silence suppressed some, it may have been what saved Kavanaugh's reputation in the Supreme Court hot seat.
When the sexual assault allegations came out, the Prep community jumped into action. Maura Molloy Kane and her younger sister Meghan Molloy McCaleb, both Visitations alumns, led the charge.
Kane had dated Kavanaugh and is now married to his old pal Thomas Kane. McCaleb is married to the Judge's old friend Scott McCaleb.
They started the letter that circulated the girl Catholic school alums asking for signatures to attest to Kavanaugh's character.
Within minutes many women signed, without even know the allegations, according to sources.
'He was one of their own and his close friends were going to do everything that they could to cover for him,' one Visitation alum said.
Tom Kane went on CNN to defend Kavanaugh saying 'boys will be boys' and remained mum on their old antics, sticking to the omerta code of honor.
Many Prep alums say they're not surprised more classmates haven't spoken up. Afterall the omerta rule was drilled into them as pupils.
'I was just appalled at the extent to which no one from the class was speaking up. Did anyone sit down with him—like, buy him a beer and say, "Hey, Brett, you need to think about this. I love you, I care about you, you’re a good person. Whatever went on there you need to face this head-on, this is important,"' alum Don said.
Some Prep alumni tried to start a petition to break the code of silence and support an investigation into the sexual assault allegations.
About 80 men signed it. The petition mobilizers realized the countless other former classmates were too scared to sign for fear of retribution.
In response to the inquiries over the school's hazardous culture and rule of silence, Georgetown Prep told Vanity Fair: 'We have labored for years to protect students from a broader culture chockablock with degrading influences. And yes, we are painfully aware that all our students, and indeed everyone in our community, sometimes fall short. Human failing, and the effort to reconcile our lives with the teachings of Christ, are at the very heart of our School.'
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Brett Kavanaugh graduated from Georgetown Preparatory School in 1983, a school notorious for abiding by culture of omerta
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